Is it usual practice to combine and minify external JS libraries and css files or should only user generated CSS and JS files be combined and minified?
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Is it usual practice to combine and minify external JS libraries and css files or should only user generated CSS and JS files be combined and minified?
It is best practice to combine and minify external js and css files. This results in fewer requests and faster load times.
It doesn’t matter if they are application specific or a library such as jquery. Just make sure that code that relies on your libraries are combined after the libraries.