Online script minification

- [Instructor] When you're done writing your JavaScript,…you've tested it, you've linted it,…it's ready to go onto the web,…it's a good idea to minify or uglify the script.…Minification of JavaScript means removing…all unnecessary white space, removing all commons,…and optimizing the code so it's easier to…download and run for the browser.…This also makes the code completely unreadable…to us humans, so typically you would…minify the code, put it into a separate file…and then reference that file from index.html…or whatever main document you're using.…

There are many different tools available…to minify your JavaScript, and you'll find lots of options…if you just google JavaScript minification.…This is one of them.…It's just called minifier.org.…To use it, simply copy your JavaScript,…paste it in, click Minify,…and out comes the minified version.…Down here you see even though the script is really short,…the original script was 2,082 bytes,…the minified script is 1,498 bytes,…so we gained 584 bytes by minification.…