Merge JS and CSS files - Example of typewriter cms

Question

Thought it is worth pointing out that typewriter CMS has an option to merge / compact all JS files into one, same for CSS: http://www.typesettercms.com/

See open source repo for the code: https://github.com/Typesetter/Typesetter

Hope to see something like this in q2a in the future.

Answer 1

Yes this is something I've considered before. Though it's not necessarily a guaranteed win, processing the request with PHP could end up slower than just serving static files from the server directly. Will have to test and see.

Comments

I am pretty sure he is caching the files.

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Even with caching, serving a file through PHP will always be slower than serving the same file through the filesystem. It depends how much we save by concatenating the files into one.

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Here is an example how dokuwiki is doing the merge: https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/blob/master/lib/exe/js.php

And for CSS: https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/blob/master/lib/exe/css.php

Maybe it helps.