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JavaScript Gulp Basics Gulp your JavaScript Workflow Minifying JavaScript Files

Posted by Don Macarthur
Don Macarthur
28,430 Points

Gulp Minify app.js

Hi guys,

I've followed along with this video and my output file, app.min.js, is huge!

Most of the code it throws up is showing as greyed out in my text editor (Atom) so I'm assuming it's been commented out - although I don't see any comment tokens anywhere.

Is this an issue that I should be worried about?

I've uploaded my project folder to GitHub at the following repository:-

https://github.com/Donatron/GulpBasics

Thanks in advance for any help. Don :-)

Fernando Boza
Fernando Boza
25,384 Points

Hi Don, when you mean your app.min.js is huge, is that in terms of file size or characters?

Don Macarthur
Don Macarthur
28,430 Points

Hi Fernando,

My apologies for not being clearer. Yes, it's in terms of characters. In the video Huston's minified file is only two or three lines long but mine is thousands!

Thanks for the reply Don :-)

1 Answer

Don Macarthur
Don Macarthur
28,430 Points

Actually, I figured it out. It's just my text editor wrapping the output code so it is all displayed, rather than everything being on a couple of very long lines.

A little later in the videos Huston scrolls through some of the output and his code goes forever to the right of screen.

Thanks again for look at it for me.

Cheers Don :-)