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	# 8. Enable minification of bundle with UglifyJS

	Date: 2017-05-12

	## Status

	Accepted

	## Context

	Sources are currently minified by JSMin producing a bundle bigger than
	necessary. We want to produce a JS bundle as small as possible to ship less
	code to clients.

	Given we have a pre-compilation step in Popups, we can leverage node based
	tooling without penalty, so using UglifyJS to minify the code is an option.

	We performed some analysis to see the differences in asset size between the two
	tools. See:

	* [Minifying assets with uglifyjs][1]

	Results with the current codebase as of today 12th of May 2017 are that uglify
	produces a 40% smaller bundle, and a 25% smaller bundle when using gzip.

	This results are stable through the last 3 months, the same test has been
	performed multiple times. See [Compressed JS comparison][2]

	## Decision

	Webpack's production mode has been enabled for `npm run build`, and thus the
	compiled bundle will be minified in production with UglifyJS.

	See [Enable production settings for the production bundle][3]

	## Consequences

	The Popups bundle served in production is 40% smaller, 25% when using GZIP.


	[1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups/Minifying_assets_with_uglifyjs
	[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:JHernandez_(WMF)/Compressed_JS_comparison
	[3]: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Popups/commit/7bd29bb0582fc3d592ce2c242ac12df205d3a537

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