I would like to aggregate / assemble multiple js files into one without minifying

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Asked: June 16, 20262026-06-16T20:21:47+00:00 2026-06-16T20:21:47+00:00

I would like to aggregate / assemble multiple js files into one without minifying

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I would like to aggregate / assemble multiple js files into one without minifying or obfuscating them using a maven plugin.
I am already using a yui plugin to obfuscate some js files into one:

       <plugin>
            <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>yuicompressor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>obfuscate</id>
                    <phase>process-resources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>compress</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <nosuffix>true</nosuffix>
                        <linebreakpos>-1</linebreakpos>
                        <aggregations>
                            <aggregation>
                                <removeIncluded>true</removeIncluded>
                                <insertNewLine>false</insertNewLine>
                                <output>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/all.js</output>
                                <includes>
                                    <include>**/*.js</include>
                                </includes>
                                <excludes>
                                    <exclude>**/include/*.js</exclude>
                                </excludes>
                            </aggregation>
                        </aggregations>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Now I want the same js files aggregated without minification or obfuscation in a file allForDev.js . The goal is to have one file for development and one for production. Its going to be useful to see the whole scripts when debugging in developer tools. If I don’t find a way to do this I’ll be forced to place a lot of script tags to load all those scirpts (which is not the end of the world 🙂 but I would like to do it in a cleaner way).

I can see that the assemble plugin has the following formats:

zip tar.gz tar.bz2 jar dir war and any other format that the
ArchiveManager has been configured for

Is there a way I can use the assemble maven plugin to do this? As much as I looked there were a bunch of examples to create zips jars and wars, but none to match what I want to do. Or did I miss something?

Is there another plugin I could use?

As a side note, I tried using a second execution of the yui plugin to create a second js file, but I had no luck in creating 2 files. I also tried providing 2 yui plugins, with no luck again. I think that’s not possible either.

Cheers,
Despot