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- terser
- ======
-
- ![Terser](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terser-js/terser/master/logo.png)
-
- A JavaScript parser and mangler/compressor toolkit for ES6+.
-
- *note*: You can support this project on patreon: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/fabiosantoscode"><img src="https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button@2x.png" alt="patron" width="100px" height="auto"></a>. Check out PATRONS.md for our first-tier patrons.
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- Terser recommends you use RollupJS to bundle your modules, as that produces smaller code overall.
-
- *Beautification* has been undocumented and is *being removed* from terser, we recommend you use [prettier](https://npmjs.com/package/prettier).
-
- [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/terser-js/terser.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/terser-js/terser)
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- Find the changelog in [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/terser-js/terser/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
-
- A JavaScript parser, mangler/compressor and beautifier toolkit for ES6+.
-
-
- Why choose terser?
- ------------------
-
- `uglify-es` is [no longer maintained](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/3156#issuecomment-392943058) and `uglify-js` does not support ES6+.
-
- **`terser`** is a fork of `uglify-es` that retains API and CLI compatibility
- with `uglify-es` and `uglify-js@3`.
-
- Install
- -------
-
- First make sure you have installed the latest version of [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
- (You may need to restart your computer after this step).
-
- From NPM for use as a command line app:
-
- npm install terser -g
-
- From NPM for programmatic use:
-
- npm install terser
-
- # Command line usage
-
- terser [input files] [options]
-
- Terser can take multiple input files. It's recommended that you pass the
- input files first, then pass the options. Terser will parse input files
- in sequence and apply any compression options. The files are parsed in the
- same global scope, that is, a reference from a file to some
- variable/function declared in another file will be matched properly.
-
- If no input file is specified, Terser will read from STDIN.
-
- If you wish to pass your options before the input files, separate the two with
- a double dash to prevent input files being used as option arguments:
-
- terser --compress --mangle -- input.js
-
- ### Command line options
-
- ```
- -h, --help Print usage information.
- `--help options` for details on available options.
- -V, --version Print version number.
- -p, --parse <options> Specify parser options:
- `acorn` Use Acorn for parsing.
- `bare_returns` Allow return outside of functions.
- Useful when minifying CommonJS
- modules and Userscripts that may
- be anonymous function wrapped (IIFE)
- by the .user.js engine `caller`.
- `expression` Parse a single expression, rather than
- a program (for parsing JSON).
- `spidermonkey` Assume input files are SpiderMonkey
- AST format (as JSON).
- -c, --compress [options] Enable compressor/specify compressor options:
- `pure_funcs` List of functions that can be safely
- removed when their return values are
- not used.
- -m, --mangle [options] Mangle names/specify mangler options:
- `reserved` List of names that should not be mangled.
- --mangle-props [options] Mangle properties/specify mangler options:
- `builtins` Mangle property names that overlaps
- with standard JavaScript globals.
- `debug` Add debug prefix and suffix.
- `domprops` Mangle property names that overlaps
- with DOM properties.
- `keep_quoted` Only mangle unquoted properties.
- `regex` Only mangle matched property names.
- `reserved` List of names that should not be mangled.
- -b, --beautify [options] Specify output options:
- `preamble` Preamble to prepend to the output. You
- can use this to insert a comment, for
- example for licensing information.
- This will not be parsed, but the source
- map will adjust for its presence.
- `quote_style` Quote style:
- 0 - auto
- 1 - single
- 2 - double
- 3 - original
- `wrap_iife` Wrap IIFEs in parenthesis. Note: you may
- want to disable `negate_iife` under
- compressor options.
- -o, --output <file> Output file path (default STDOUT). Specify `ast` or
- `spidermonkey` to write Terser or SpiderMonkey AST
- as JSON to STDOUT respectively.
- --comments [filter] Preserve copyright comments in the output. By
- default this works like Google Closure, keeping
- JSDoc-style comments that contain "@license" or
- "@preserve". You can optionally pass one of the
- following arguments to this flag:
- - "all" to keep all comments
- - a valid JS RegExp like `/foo/` or `/^!/` to
- keep only matching comments.
- Note that currently not *all* comments can be
- kept when compression is on, because of dead
- code removal or cascading statements into
- sequences.
- --config-file <file> Read `minify()` options from JSON file.
- -d, --define <expr>[=value] Global definitions.
- --ecma <version> Specify ECMAScript release: 5, 6, 7 or 8.
- -e, --enclose [arg[:value]] Embed output in a big function with configurable
- arguments and values.
- --ie8 Support non-standard Internet Explorer 8.
- Equivalent to setting `ie8: true` in `minify()`
- for `compress`, `mangle` and `output` options.
- By default Terser will not try to be IE-proof.
- --keep-classnames Do not mangle/drop class names.
- --keep-fnames Do not mangle/drop function names. Useful for
- code relying on Function.prototype.name.
- --module Input is an ES6 module. If `compress` or `mangle` is
- enabled then the `toplevel` option will be enabled.
- --name-cache <file> File to hold mangled name mappings.
- --safari10 Support non-standard Safari 10/11.
- Equivalent to setting `safari10: true` in `minify()`
- for `mangle` and `output` options.
- By default `terser` will not work around
- Safari 10/11 bugs.
- --source-map [options] Enable source map/specify source map options:
- `base` Path to compute relative paths from input files.
- `content` Input source map, useful if you're compressing
- JS that was generated from some other original
- code. Specify "inline" if the source map is
- included within the sources.
- `filename` Name and/or location of the output source.
- `includeSources` Pass this flag if you want to include
- the content of source files in the
- source map as sourcesContent property.
- `root` Path to the original source to be included in
- the source map.
- `url` If specified, path to the source map to append in
- `//# sourceMappingURL`.
- --timings Display operations run time on STDERR.
- --toplevel Compress and/or mangle variables in top level scope.
- --verbose Print diagnostic messages.
- --warn Print warning messages.
- --wrap <name> Embed everything in a big function, making the
- “exports” and “global” variables available. You
- need to pass an argument to this option to
- specify the name that your module will take
- when included in, say, a browser.
- ```
-
- Specify `--output` (`-o`) to declare the output file. Otherwise the output
- goes to STDOUT.
-
- ## CLI source map options
-
- Terser can generate a source map file, which is highly useful for
- debugging your compressed JavaScript. To get a source map, pass
- `--source-map --output output.js` (source map will be written out to
- `output.js.map`).
-
- Additional options:
-
- - `--source-map "filename='<NAME>'"` to specify the name of the source map.
-
- - `--source-map "root='<URL>'"` to pass the URL where the original files can be found.
-
- - `--source-map "url='<URL>'"` to specify the URL where the source map can be found.
- Otherwise Terser assumes HTTP `X-SourceMap` is being used and will omit the
- `//# sourceMappingURL=` directive.
-
- For example:
-
- terser js/file1.js js/file2.js \
- -o foo.min.js -c -m \
- --source-map "root='http://foo.com/src',url='foo.min.js.map'"
-
- The above will compress and mangle `file1.js` and `file2.js`, will drop the
- output in `foo.min.js` and the source map in `foo.min.js.map`. The source
- mapping will refer to `http://foo.com/src/js/file1.js` and
- `http://foo.com/src/js/file2.js` (in fact it will list `http://foo.com/src`
- as the source map root, and the original files as `js/file1.js` and
- `js/file2.js`).
-
- ### Composed source map
-
- When you're compressing JS code that was output by a compiler such as
- CoffeeScript, mapping to the JS code won't be too helpful. Instead, you'd
- like to map back to the original code (i.e. CoffeeScript). Terser has an
- option to take an input source map. Assuming you have a mapping from
- CoffeeScript → compiled JS, Terser can generate a map from CoffeeScript →
- compressed JS by mapping every token in the compiled JS to its original
- location.
-
- To use this feature pass `--source-map "content='/path/to/input/source.map'"`
- or `--source-map "content=inline"` if the source map is included inline with
- the sources.
-
- ## CLI compress options
-
- You need to pass `--compress` (`-c`) to enable the compressor. Optionally
- you can pass a comma-separated list of [compress options](#compress-options).
-
- Options are in the form `foo=bar`, or just `foo` (the latter implies
- a boolean option that you want to set `true`; it's effectively a
- shortcut for `foo=true`).
-
- Example:
-
- terser file.js -c toplevel,sequences=false
-
- ## CLI mangle options
-
- To enable the mangler you need to pass `--mangle` (`-m`). The following
- (comma-separated) options are supported:
-
- - `toplevel` (default `false`) -- mangle names declared in the top level scope.
-
- - `eval` (default `false`) -- mangle names visible in scopes where `eval` or `with` are used.
-
- When mangling is enabled but you want to prevent certain names from being
- mangled, you can declare those names with `--mangle reserved` — pass a
- comma-separated list of names. For example:
-
- terser ... -m reserved=['$','require','exports']
-
- to prevent the `require`, `exports` and `$` names from being changed.
-
- ### CLI mangling property names (`--mangle-props`)
-
- **Note:** THIS **WILL** BREAK YOUR CODE. A good rule of thumb is not to use this unless you know exactly what you're doing and how this works and read this section until the end.
-
- Mangling property names is a separate step, different from variable name mangling. Pass
- `--mangle-props` to enable it. The least dangerous
- way to use this is to use the `regex` option like so:
-
- ```
- terser example.js -c -m --mangle-props regex=/_$/
- ```
-
- This will mangle all properties that start with an
- underscore. So you can use it to mangle internal methods.
-
- By default, it will mangle all properties in the
- input code with the exception of built in DOM properties and properties
- in core JavaScript classes, which is what will break your code if you don't:
-
- 1. Control all the code you're mangling
- 2. Avoid using a module bundler, as they usually will call Terser on each file individually, making it impossible to pass mangled objects between modules.
- 3. Avoid calling functions like `defineProperty` or `hasOwnProperty`, because they refer to object properties using strings and will break your code if you don't know what you are doing.
-
- An example:
-
- ```javascript
- // example.js
- var x = {
- baz_: 0,
- foo_: 1,
- calc: function() {
- return this.foo_ + this.baz_;
- }
- };
- x.bar_ = 2;
- x["baz_"] = 3;
- console.log(x.calc());
- ```
- Mangle all properties (except for JavaScript `builtins`) (**very** unsafe):
- ```bash
- $ terser example.js -c -m --mangle-props
- ```
- ```javascript
- var x={o:0,_:1,l:function(){return this._+this.o}};x.t=2,x.o=3,console.log(x.l());
- ```
- Mangle all properties except for `reserved` properties (still very unsafe):
- ```bash
- $ terser example.js -c -m --mangle-props reserved=[foo_,bar_]
- ```
- ```javascript
- var x={o:0,foo_:1,_:function(){return this.foo_+this.o}};x.bar_=2,x.o=3,console.log(x._());
- ```
- Mangle all properties matching a `regex` (not as unsafe but still unsafe):
- ```bash
- $ terser example.js -c -m --mangle-props regex=/_$/
- ```
- ```javascript
- var x={o:0,_:1,calc:function(){return this._+this.o}};x.l=2,x.o=3,console.log(x.calc());
- ```
-
- Combining mangle properties options:
- ```bash
- $ terser example.js -c -m --mangle-props regex=/_$/,reserved=[bar_]
- ```
- ```javascript
- var x={o:0,_:1,calc:function(){return this._+this.o}};x.bar_=2,x.o=3,console.log(x.calc());
- ```
-
- In order for this to be of any use, we avoid mangling standard JS names by
- default (`--mangle-props builtins` to override).
-
- A default exclusion file is provided in `tools/domprops.json` which should
- cover most standard JS and DOM properties defined in various browsers. Pass
- `--mangle-props domprops` to disable this feature.
-
- A regular expression can be used to define which property names should be
- mangled. For example, `--mangle-props regex=/^_/` will only mangle property
- names that start with an underscore.
-
- When you compress multiple files using this option, in order for them to
- work together in the end we need to ensure somehow that one property gets
- mangled to the same name in all of them. For this, pass `--name-cache filename.json`
- and Terser will maintain these mappings in a file which can then be reused.
- It should be initially empty. Example:
-
- ```bash
- $ rm -f /tmp/cache.json # start fresh
- $ terser file1.js file2.js --mangle-props --name-cache /tmp/cache.json -o part1.js
- $ terser file3.js file4.js --mangle-props --name-cache /tmp/cache.json -o part2.js
- ```
-
- Now, `part1.js` and `part2.js` will be consistent with each other in terms
- of mangled property names.
-
- Using the name cache is not necessary if you compress all your files in a
- single call to Terser.
-
- ### Mangling unquoted names (`--mangle-props keep_quoted`)
-
- Using quoted property name (`o["foo"]`) reserves the property name (`foo`)
- so that it is not mangled throughout the entire script even when used in an
- unquoted style (`o.foo`). Example:
-
- ```javascript
- // stuff.js
- var o = {
- "foo": 1,
- bar: 3
- };
- o.foo += o.bar;
- console.log(o.foo);
- ```
- ```bash
- $ terser stuff.js --mangle-props keep_quoted -c -m
- ```
- ```javascript
- var o={foo:1,o:3};o.foo+=o.o,console.log(o.foo);
- ```
-
- ### Debugging property name mangling
-
- You can also pass `--mangle-props debug` in order to mangle property names
- without completely obscuring them. For example the property `o.foo`
- would mangle to `o._$foo$_` with this option. This allows property mangling
- of a large codebase while still being able to debug the code and identify
- where mangling is breaking things.
-
- ```bash
- $ terser stuff.js --mangle-props debug -c -m
- ```
- ```javascript
- var o={_$foo$_:1,_$bar$_:3};o._$foo$_+=o._$bar$_,console.log(o._$foo$_);
- ```
-
- You can also pass a custom suffix using `--mangle-props debug=XYZ`. This would then
- mangle `o.foo` to `o._$foo$XYZ_`. You can change this each time you compile a
- script to identify how a property got mangled. One technique is to pass a
- random number on every compile to simulate mangling changing with different
- inputs (e.g. as you update the input script with new properties), and to help
- identify mistakes like writing mangled keys to storage.
-
-
- # API Reference
-
- Assuming installation via NPM, you can load Terser in your application
- like this:
- ```javascript
- var Terser = require("terser");
- ```
- Browser loading is also supported:
- ```html
- <script src="node_modules/source-map/dist/source-map.min.js"></script>
- <script src="dist/bundle.min.js"></script>
- ```
-
- There is a single high level function, **`minify(code, options)`**,
- which will perform all minification [phases](#minify-options) in a configurable
- manner. By default `minify()` will enable the options [`compress`](#compress-options)
- and [`mangle`](#mangle-options). Example:
- ```javascript
- var code = "function add(first, second) { return first + second; }";
- var result = Terser.minify(code);
- console.log(result.error); // runtime error, or `undefined` if no error
- console.log(result.code); // minified output: function add(n,d){return n+d}
- ```
-
- You can `minify` more than one JavaScript file at a time by using an object
- for the first argument where the keys are file names and the values are source
- code:
- ```javascript
- var code = {
- "file1.js": "function add(first, second) { return first + second; }",
- "file2.js": "console.log(add(1 + 2, 3 + 4));"
- };
- var result = Terser.minify(code);
- console.log(result.code);
- // function add(d,n){return d+n}console.log(add(3,7));
- ```
-
- The `toplevel` option:
- ```javascript
- var code = {
- "file1.js": "function add(first, second) { return first + second; }",
- "file2.js": "console.log(add(1 + 2, 3 + 4));"
- };
- var options = { toplevel: true };
- var result = Terser.minify(code, options);
- console.log(result.code);
- // console.log(3+7);
- ```
-
- The `nameCache` option:
- ```javascript
- var options = {
- mangle: {
- toplevel: true,
- },
- nameCache: {}
- };
- var result1 = Terser.minify({
- "file1.js": "function add(first, second) { return first + second; }"
- }, options);
- var result2 = Terser.minify({
- "file2.js": "console.log(add(1 + 2, 3 + 4));"
- }, options);
- console.log(result1.code);
- // function n(n,r){return n+r}
- console.log(result2.code);
- // console.log(n(3,7));
- ```
-
- You may persist the name cache to the file system in the following way:
- ```javascript
- var cacheFileName = "/tmp/cache.json";
- var options = {
- mangle: {
- properties: true,
- },
- nameCache: JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(cacheFileName, "utf8"))
- };
- fs.writeFileSync("part1.js", Terser.minify({
- "file1.js": fs.readFileSync("file1.js", "utf8"),
- "file2.js": fs.readFileSync("file2.js", "utf8")
- }, options).code, "utf8");
- fs.writeFileSync("part2.js", Terser.minify({
- "file3.js": fs.readFileSync("file3.js", "utf8"),
- "file4.js": fs.readFileSync("file4.js", "utf8")
- }, options).code, "utf8");
- fs.writeFileSync(cacheFileName, JSON.stringify(options.nameCache), "utf8");
- ```
-
- An example of a combination of `minify()` options:
- ```javascript
- var code = {
- "file1.js": "function add(first, second) { return first + second; }",
- "file2.js": "console.log(add(1 + 2, 3 + 4));"
- };
- var options = {
- toplevel: true,
- compress: {
- global_defs: {
- "@console.log": "alert"
- },
- passes: 2
- },
- output: {
- beautify: false,
- preamble: "/* minified */"
- }
- };
- var result = Terser.minify(code, options);
- console.log(result.code);
- // /* minified */
- // alert(10);"
- ```
-
- To produce warnings:
- ```javascript
- var code = "function f(){ var u; return 2 + 3; }";
- var options = { warnings: true };
- var result = Terser.minify(code, options);
- console.log(result.error); // runtime error, `undefined` in this case
- console.log(result.warnings); // [ 'Dropping unused variable u [0:1,18]' ]
- console.log(result.code); // function f(){return 5}
- ```
-
- An error example:
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify({"foo.js" : "if (0) else console.log(1);"});
- console.log(JSON.stringify(result.error));
- // {"message":"Unexpected token: keyword (else)","filename":"foo.js","line":1,"col":7,"pos":7}
- ```
- Note: unlike `uglify-js@2.x`, the Terser API does not throw errors.
- To achieve a similar effect one could do the following:
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify(code, options);
- if (result.error) throw result.error;
- ```
-
- ## Minify options
-
- - `ecma` (default `undefined`) - pass `5`, `6`, `7` or `8` to override `parse`,
- `compress` and `output` options.
-
- - `warnings` (default `false`) — pass `true` to return compressor warnings
- in `result.warnings`. Use the value `"verbose"` for more detailed warnings.
-
- - `parse` (default `{}`) — pass an object if you wish to specify some
- additional [parse options](#parse-options).
-
- - `compress` (default `{}`) — pass `false` to skip compressing entirely.
- Pass an object to specify custom [compress options](#compress-options).
-
- - `mangle` (default `true`) — pass `false` to skip mangling names, or pass
- an object to specify [mangle options](#mangle-options) (see below).
-
- - `mangle.properties` (default `false`) — a subcategory of the mangle option.
- Pass an object to specify custom [mangle property options](#mangle-properties-options).
-
- - `module` (default `false`) — Use when minifying an ES6 module. "use strict"
- is implied and names can be mangled on the top scope. If `compress` or
- `mangle` is enabled then the `toplevel` option will be enabled.
-
- - `output` (default `null`) — pass an object if you wish to specify
- additional [output options](#output-options). The defaults are optimized
- for best compression.
-
- - `sourceMap` (default `false`) - pass an object if you wish to specify
- [source map options](#source-map-options).
-
- - `toplevel` (default `false`) - set to `true` if you wish to enable top level
- variable and function name mangling and to drop unused variables and functions.
-
- - `nameCache` (default `null`) - pass an empty object `{}` or a previously
- used `nameCache` object if you wish to cache mangled variable and
- property names across multiple invocations of `minify()`. Note: this is
- a read/write property. `minify()` will read the name cache state of this
- object and update it during minification so that it may be
- reused or externally persisted by the user.
-
- - `ie8` (default `false`) - set to `true` to support IE8.
-
- - `keep_classnames` (default: `undefined`) - pass `true` to prevent discarding or mangling
- of class names. Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching that regex.
-
- - `keep_fnames` (default: `false`) - pass `true` to prevent discarding or mangling
- of function names. Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching that regex.
- Useful for code relying on `Function.prototype.name`. If the top level minify option
- `keep_classnames` is `undefined` it will be overridden with the value of the top level
- minify option `keep_fnames`.
-
- - `safari10` (default: `false`) - pass `true` to work around Safari 10/11 bugs in
- loop scoping and `await`. See `safari10` options in [`mangle`](#mangle-options)
- and [`output`](#output-options) for details.
-
- ## Minify options structure
-
- ```javascript
- {
- parse: {
- // parse options
- },
- compress: {
- // compress options
- },
- mangle: {
- // mangle options
-
- properties: {
- // mangle property options
- }
- },
- output: {
- // output options
- },
- sourceMap: {
- // source map options
- },
- ecma: 5, // specify one of: 5, 6, 7 or 8
- keep_classnames: false,
- keep_fnames: false,
- ie8: false,
- module: false,
- nameCache: null, // or specify a name cache object
- safari10: false,
- toplevel: false,
- warnings: false,
- }
- ```
-
- ### Source map options
-
- To generate a source map:
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify({"file1.js": "var a = function() {};"}, {
- sourceMap: {
- filename: "out.js",
- url: "out.js.map"
- }
- });
- console.log(result.code); // minified output
- console.log(result.map); // source map
- ```
-
- Note that the source map is not saved in a file, it's just returned in
- `result.map`. The value passed for `sourceMap.url` is only used to set
- `//# sourceMappingURL=out.js.map` in `result.code`. The value of
- `filename` is only used to set `file` attribute (see [the spec][sm-spec])
- in source map file.
-
- You can set option `sourceMap.url` to be `"inline"` and source map will
- be appended to code.
-
- You can also specify sourceRoot property to be included in source map:
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify({"file1.js": "var a = function() {};"}, {
- sourceMap: {
- root: "http://example.com/src",
- url: "out.js.map"
- }
- });
- ```
-
- If you're compressing compiled JavaScript and have a source map for it, you
- can use `sourceMap.content`:
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify({"compiled.js": "compiled code"}, {
- sourceMap: {
- content: "content from compiled.js.map",
- url: "minified.js.map"
- }
- });
- // same as before, it returns `code` and `map`
- ```
-
- If you're using the `X-SourceMap` header instead, you can just omit `sourceMap.url`.
-
- ## Parse options
-
- - `bare_returns` (default `false`) -- support top level `return` statements
-
- - `ecma` (default: `8`) -- specify one of `5`, `6`, `7` or `8`. Note: this setting
- is not presently enforced except for ES8 optional trailing commas in function
- parameter lists and calls with `ecma` `8`.
-
- - `html5_comments` (default `true`)
-
- - `shebang` (default `true`) -- support `#!command` as the first line
-
- ## Compress options
-
- - `arrows` (default: `true`) -- Converts `()=>{return x}` to `()=>x`. Class
- and object literal methods will also be converted to arrow expressions if
- the resultant code is shorter: `m(){return x}` becomes `m:()=>x`.
-
- - `arguments` (default: `false`) -- replace `arguments[index]` with function
- parameter name whenever possible.
-
- - `booleans` (default: `true`) -- various optimizations for boolean context,
- for example `!!a ? b : c → a ? b : c`
-
- - `booleans_as_integers` (default: `false`) -- Turn booleans into 0 and 1, also
- makes comparisons with booleans use `==` and `!=` instead of `===` and `!==`.
-
- - `collapse_vars` (default: `true`) -- Collapse single-use non-constant variables,
- side effects permitting.
-
- - `comparisons` (default: `true`) -- apply certain optimizations to binary nodes,
- e.g. `!(a <= b) → a > b` (only when `unsafe_comps`), attempts to negate binary
- nodes, e.g. `a = !b && !c && !d && !e → a=!(b||c||d||e)` etc.
-
- - `computed_props` (default: `true`) -- Transforms constant computed properties
- into regular ones: `{["computed"]: 1}` is converted to `{computed: 1}`.
-
- - `conditionals` (default: `true`) -- apply optimizations for `if`-s and conditional
- expressions
-
- - `dead_code` (default: `true`) -- remove unreachable code
-
- - `defaults` (default: `true`) -- Pass `false` to disable most default
- enabled `compress` transforms. Useful when you only want to enable a few
- `compress` options while disabling the rest.
-
- - `directives` (default: `true`) -- remove redundant or non-standard directives
-
- - `drop_console` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to discard calls to
- `console.*` functions. If you wish to drop a specific function call
- such as `console.info` and/or retain side effects from function arguments
- after dropping the function call then use `pure_funcs` instead.
-
- - `drop_debugger` (default: `true`) -- remove `debugger;` statements
-
- - `ecma` (default: `5`) -- Pass `6` or greater to enable `compress` options that
- will transform ES5 code into smaller ES6+ equivalent forms.
-
- - `evaluate` (default: `true`) -- attempt to evaluate constant expressions
-
- - `expression` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to preserve completion values
- from terminal statements without `return`, e.g. in bookmarklets.
-
- - `global_defs` (default: `{}`) -- see [conditional compilation](#conditional-compilation)
-
- - `hoist_funs` (default: `false`) -- hoist function declarations
-
- - `hoist_props` (default: `true`) -- hoist properties from constant object and
- array literals into regular variables subject to a set of constraints. For example:
- `var o={p:1, q:2}; f(o.p, o.q);` is converted to `f(1, 2);`. Note: `hoist_props`
- works best with `mangle` enabled, the `compress` option `passes` set to `2` or higher,
- and the `compress` option `toplevel` enabled.
-
- - `hoist_vars` (default: `false`) -- hoist `var` declarations (this is `false`
- by default because it seems to increase the size of the output in general)
-
- - `if_return` (default: `true`) -- optimizations for if/return and if/continue
-
- - `inline` (default: `true`) -- inline calls to function with simple/`return` statement:
- - `false` -- same as `0`
- - `0` -- disabled inlining
- - `1` -- inline simple functions
- - `2` -- inline functions with arguments
- - `3` -- inline functions with arguments and variables
- - `true` -- same as `3`
-
- - `join_vars` (default: `true`) -- join consecutive `var` statements
-
- - `keep_classnames` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to prevent the compressor from
- discarding class names. Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching
- that regex. See also: the `keep_classnames` [mangle option](#mangle).
-
- - `keep_fargs` (default: `true`) -- Prevents the compressor from discarding unused
- function arguments. You need this for code which relies on `Function.length`.
-
- - `keep_fnames` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to prevent the
- compressor from discarding function names. Pass a regular expression to only keep
- class names matching that regex. Useful for code relying on `Function.prototype.name`.
- See also: the `keep_fnames` [mangle option](#mangle).
-
- - `keep_infinity` (default: `false`) -- Pass `true` to prevent `Infinity` from
- being compressed into `1/0`, which may cause performance issues on Chrome.
-
- - `loops` (default: `true`) -- optimizations for `do`, `while` and `for` loops
- when we can statically determine the condition.
-
- - `module` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` when compressing an ES6 module. Strict
- mode is implied and the `toplevel` option as well.
-
- - `negate_iife` (default: `true`) -- negate "Immediately-Called Function Expressions"
- where the return value is discarded, to avoid the parens that the
- code generator would insert.
-
- - `passes` (default: `1`) -- The maximum number of times to run compress.
- In some cases more than one pass leads to further compressed code. Keep in
- mind more passes will take more time.
-
- - `properties` (default: `true`) -- rewrite property access using the dot notation, for
- example `foo["bar"] → foo.bar`
-
- - `pure_funcs` (default: `null`) -- You can pass an array of names and
- Terser will assume that those functions do not produce side
- effects. DANGER: will not check if the name is redefined in scope.
- An example case here, for instance `var q = Math.floor(a/b)`. If
- variable `q` is not used elsewhere, Terser will drop it, but will
- still keep the `Math.floor(a/b)`, not knowing what it does. You can
- pass `pure_funcs: [ 'Math.floor' ]` to let it know that this
- function won't produce any side effect, in which case the whole
- statement would get discarded. The current implementation adds some
- overhead (compression will be slower).
-
- - `pure_getters` (default: `"strict"`) -- If you pass `true` for
- this, Terser will assume that object property access
- (e.g. `foo.bar` or `foo["bar"]`) doesn't have any side effects.
- Specify `"strict"` to treat `foo.bar` as side-effect-free only when
- `foo` is certain to not throw, i.e. not `null` or `undefined`.
-
- - `reduce_funcs` (default: `true`) -- Allows single-use functions to be
- inlined as function expressions when permissible allowing further
- optimization. Enabled by default. Option depends on `reduce_vars`
- being enabled. Some code runs faster in the Chrome V8 engine if this
- option is disabled. Does not negatively impact other major browsers.
-
- - `reduce_vars` (default: `true`) -- Improve optimization on variables assigned with and
- used as constant values.
-
- - `sequences` (default: `true`) -- join consecutive simple statements using the
- comma operator. May be set to a positive integer to specify the maximum number
- of consecutive comma sequences that will be generated. If this option is set to
- `true` then the default `sequences` limit is `200`. Set option to `false` or `0`
- to disable. The smallest `sequences` length is `2`. A `sequences` value of `1`
- is grandfathered to be equivalent to `true` and as such means `200`. On rare
- occasions the default sequences limit leads to very slow compress times in which
- case a value of `20` or less is recommended.
-
- - `side_effects` (default: `true`) -- Pass `false` to disable potentially dropping
- functions marked as "pure". A function call is marked as "pure" if a comment
- annotation `/*@__PURE__*/` or `/*#__PURE__*/` immediately precedes the call. For
- example: `/*@__PURE__*/foo();`
-
- - `switches` (default: `true`) -- de-duplicate and remove unreachable `switch` branches
-
- - `toplevel` (default: `false`) -- drop unreferenced functions (`"funcs"`) and/or
- variables (`"vars"`) in the top level scope (`false` by default, `true` to drop
- both unreferenced functions and variables)
-
- - `top_retain` (default: `null`) -- prevent specific toplevel functions and
- variables from `unused` removal (can be array, comma-separated, RegExp or
- function. Implies `toplevel`)
-
- - `typeofs` (default: `true`) -- Transforms `typeof foo == "undefined"` into
- `foo === void 0`. Note: recommend to set this value to `false` for IE10 and
- earlier versions due to known issues.
-
- - `unsafe` (default: `false`) -- apply "unsafe" transformations
- ([details](#the-unsafe-compress-option)).
-
- - `unsafe_arrows` (default: `false`) -- Convert ES5 style anonymous function
- expressions to arrow functions if the function body does not reference `this`.
- Note: it is not always safe to perform this conversion if code relies on the
- the function having a `prototype`, which arrow functions lack.
- This transform requires that the `ecma` compress option is set to `6` or greater.
-
- - `unsafe_comps` (default: `false`) -- Reverse `<` and `<=` to `>` and `>=` to
- allow improved compression. This might be unsafe when an at least one of two
- operands is an object with computed values due the use of methods like `get`,
- or `valueOf`. This could cause change in execution order after operands in the
- comparison are switching. Compression only works if both `comparisons` and
- `unsafe_comps` are both set to true.
-
- - `unsafe_Function` (default: `false`) -- compress and mangle `Function(args, code)`
- when both `args` and `code` are string literals.
-
- - `unsafe_math` (default: `false`) -- optimize numerical expressions like
- `2 * x * 3` into `6 * x`, which may give imprecise floating point results.
-
- - `unsafe_methods` (default: false) -- Converts `{ m: function(){} }` to
- `{ m(){} }`. `ecma` must be set to `6` or greater to enable this transform.
- If `unsafe_methods` is a RegExp then key/value pairs with keys matching the
- RegExp will be converted to concise methods.
- Note: if enabled there is a risk of getting a "`<method name>` is not a
- constructor" TypeError should any code try to `new` the former function.
-
- - `unsafe_proto` (default: `false`) -- optimize expressions like
- `Array.prototype.slice.call(a)` into `[].slice.call(a)`
-
- - `unsafe_regexp` (default: `false`) -- enable substitutions of variables with
- `RegExp` values the same way as if they are constants.
-
- - `unsafe_undefined` (default: `false`) -- substitute `void 0` if there is a
- variable named `undefined` in scope (variable name will be mangled, typically
- reduced to a single character)
-
- - `unused` (default: `true`) -- drop unreferenced functions and variables (simple
- direct variable assignments do not count as references unless set to `"keep_assign"`)
-
- - `warnings` (default: `false`) -- display warnings when dropping unreachable
- code or unused declarations etc.
-
- ## Mangle options
-
- - `eval` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` to mangle names visible in scopes
- where `eval` or `with` are used.
-
- - `keep_classnames` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` to not mangle class names.
- Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching that regex.
- See also: the `keep_classnames` [compress option](#compress-options).
-
- - `keep_fnames` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` to not mangle function names.
- Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching that regex.
- Useful for code relying on `Function.prototype.name`. See also: the `keep_fnames`
- [compress option](#compress-options).
-
- - `module` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` an ES6 modules, where the toplevel
- scope is not the global scope. Implies `toplevel`.
-
- - `reserved` (default `[]`) -- Pass an array of identifiers that should be
- excluded from mangling. Example: `["foo", "bar"]`.
-
- - `toplevel` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` to mangle names declared in the
- top level scope.
-
- - `safari10` (default `false`) -- Pass `true` to work around the Safari 10 loop
- iterator [bug](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171041)
- "Cannot declare a let variable twice".
- See also: the `safari10` [output option](#output-options).
-
- Examples:
-
- ```javascript
- // test.js
- var globalVar;
- function funcName(firstLongName, anotherLongName) {
- var myVariable = firstLongName + anotherLongName;
- }
- ```
- ```javascript
- var code = fs.readFileSync("test.js", "utf8");
-
- Terser.minify(code).code;
- // 'function funcName(a,n){}var globalVar;'
-
- Terser.minify(code, { mangle: { reserved: ['firstLongName'] } }).code;
- // 'function funcName(firstLongName,a){}var globalVar;'
-
- Terser.minify(code, { mangle: { toplevel: true } }).code;
- // 'function n(n,a){}var a;'
- ```
-
- ### Mangle properties options
-
- - `builtins` (default: `false`) -- Use `true` to allow the mangling of builtin
- DOM properties. Not recommended to override this setting.
-
- - `debug` (default: `false`) -— Mangle names with the original name still present.
- Pass an empty string `""` to enable, or a non-empty string to set the debug suffix.
-
- - `keep_quoted` (default: `false`) -— Only mangle unquoted property names.
-
- - `regex` (default: `null`) -— Pass a RegExp literal to only mangle property
- names matching the regular expression.
-
- - `reserved` (default: `[]`) -- Do not mangle property names listed in the
- `reserved` array.
-
- ## Output options
-
- The code generator tries to output shortest code possible by default. In
- case you want beautified output, pass `--beautify` (`-b`). Optionally you
- can pass additional arguments that control the code output:
-
- - `ascii_only` (default `false`) -- escape Unicode characters in strings and
- regexps (affects directives with non-ascii characters becoming invalid)
-
- - `beautify` (default `true`) -- whether to actually beautify the output.
- Passing `-b` will set this to true, but you might need to pass `-b` even
- when you want to generate minified code, in order to specify additional
- arguments, so you can use `-b beautify=false` to override it.
-
- - `braces` (default `false`) -- always insert braces in `if`, `for`,
- `do`, `while` or `with` statements, even if their body is a single
- statement.
-
- - `comments` (default `false`) -- pass `true` or `"all"` to preserve all
- comments, `"some"` to preserve some comments, a regular expression string
- (e.g. `/^!/`) or a function.
-
- - `ecma` (default `5`) -- set output printing mode. Set `ecma` to `6` or
- greater to emit shorthand object properties - i.e.: `{a}` instead of `{a: a}`.
- The `ecma` option will only change the output in direct control of the
- beautifier. Non-compatible features in the abstract syntax tree will still
- be output as is. For example: an `ecma` setting of `5` will **not** convert
- ES6+ code to ES5.
-
- - `indent_level` (default `4`)
-
- - `indent_start` (default `0`) -- prefix all lines by that many spaces
-
- - `inline_script` (default `true`) -- escape HTML comments and the slash in
- occurrences of `</script>` in strings
-
- - `keep_quoted_props` (default `false`) -- when turned on, prevents stripping
- quotes from property names in object literals.
-
- - `max_line_len` (default `false`) -- maximum line length (for minified code)
-
- - `preamble` (default `null`) -- when passed it must be a string and
- it will be prepended to the output literally. The source map will
- adjust for this text. Can be used to insert a comment containing
- licensing information, for example.
-
- - `quote_keys` (default `false`) -- pass `true` to quote all keys in literal
- objects
-
- - `quote_style` (default `0`) -- preferred quote style for strings (affects
- quoted property names and directives as well):
- - `0` -- prefers double quotes, switches to single quotes when there are
- more double quotes in the string itself. `0` is best for gzip size.
- - `1` -- always use single quotes
- - `2` -- always use double quotes
- - `3` -- always use the original quotes
-
- - `safari10` (default `false`) -- set this option to `true` to work around
- the [Safari 10/11 await bug](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176685).
- See also: the `safari10` [mangle option](#mangle-options).
-
- - `semicolons` (default `true`) -- separate statements with semicolons. If
- you pass `false` then whenever possible we will use a newline instead of a
- semicolon, leading to more readable output of minified code (size before
- gzip could be smaller; size after gzip insignificantly larger).
-
- - `shebang` (default `true`) -- preserve shebang `#!` in preamble (bash scripts)
-
- - `webkit` (default `false`) -- enable workarounds for WebKit bugs.
- PhantomJS users should set this option to `true`.
-
- - `wrap_iife` (default `false`) -- pass `true` to wrap immediately invoked
- function expressions. See
- [#640](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/640) for more details.
-
- # Miscellaneous
-
- ### Keeping copyright notices or other comments
-
- You can pass `--comments` to retain certain comments in the output. By
- default it will keep JSDoc-style comments that contain "@preserve",
- "@license" or "@cc_on" (conditional compilation for IE). You can pass
- `--comments all` to keep all the comments, or a valid JavaScript regexp to
- keep only comments that match this regexp. For example `--comments /^!/`
- will keep comments like `/*! Copyright Notice */`.
-
- Note, however, that there might be situations where comments are lost. For
- example:
- ```javascript
- function f() {
- /** @preserve Foo Bar */
- function g() {
- // this function is never called
- }
- return something();
- }
- ```
-
- Even though it has "@preserve", the comment will be lost because the inner
- function `g` (which is the AST node to which the comment is attached to) is
- discarded by the compressor as not referenced.
-
- The safest comments where to place copyright information (or other info that
- needs to be kept in the output) are comments attached to toplevel nodes.
-
- ### The `unsafe` `compress` option
-
- It enables some transformations that *might* break code logic in certain
- contrived cases, but should be fine for most code. It assumes that standard
- built-in ECMAScript functions and classes have not been altered or replaced.
- You might want to try it on your own code; it should reduce the minified size.
- Some examples of the optimizations made when this option is enabled:
-
- - `new Array(1, 2, 3)` or `Array(1, 2, 3)` → `[ 1, 2, 3 ]`
- - `new Object()` → `{}`
- - `String(exp)` or `exp.toString()` → `"" + exp`
- - `new Object/RegExp/Function/Error/Array (...)` → we discard the `new`
- - `"foo bar".substr(4)` → `"bar"`
-
- ### Conditional compilation
-
- You can use the `--define` (`-d`) switch in order to declare global
- variables that Terser will assume to be constants (unless defined in
- scope). For example if you pass `--define DEBUG=false` then, coupled with
- dead code removal Terser will discard the following from the output:
- ```javascript
- if (DEBUG) {
- console.log("debug stuff");
- }
- ```
-
- You can specify nested constants in the form of `--define env.DEBUG=false`.
-
- Terser will warn about the condition being always false and about dropping
- unreachable code; for now there is no option to turn off only this specific
- warning, you can pass `warnings=false` to turn off *all* warnings.
-
- Another way of doing that is to declare your globals as constants in a
- separate file and include it into the build. For example you can have a
- `build/defines.js` file with the following:
- ```javascript
- var DEBUG = false;
- var PRODUCTION = true;
- // etc.
- ```
-
- and build your code like this:
-
- terser build/defines.js js/foo.js js/bar.js... -c
-
- Terser will notice the constants and, since they cannot be altered, it
- will evaluate references to them to the value itself and drop unreachable
- code as usual. The build will contain the `const` declarations if you use
- them. If you are targeting < ES6 environments which does not support `const`,
- using `var` with `reduce_vars` (enabled by default) should suffice.
-
- ### Conditional compilation API
-
- You can also use conditional compilation via the programmatic API. With the difference that the
- property name is `global_defs` and is a compressor property:
-
- ```javascript
- var result = Terser.minify(fs.readFileSync("input.js", "utf8"), {
- compress: {
- dead_code: true,
- global_defs: {
- DEBUG: false
- }
- }
- });
- ```
-
- To replace an identifier with an arbitrary non-constant expression it is
- necessary to prefix the `global_defs` key with `"@"` to instruct Terser
- to parse the value as an expression:
- ```javascript
- Terser.minify("alert('hello');", {
- compress: {
- global_defs: {
- "@alert": "console.log"
- }
- }
- }).code;
- // returns: 'console.log("hello");'
- ```
-
- Otherwise it would be replaced as string literal:
- ```javascript
- Terser.minify("alert('hello');", {
- compress: {
- global_defs: {
- "alert": "console.log"
- }
- }
- }).code;
- // returns: '"console.log"("hello");'
- ```
-
- ### Using native Terser AST with `minify()`
- ```javascript
- // example: parse only, produce native Terser AST
-
- var result = Terser.minify(code, {
- parse: {},
- compress: false,
- mangle: false,
- output: {
- ast: true,
- code: false // optional - faster if false
- }
- });
-
- // result.ast contains native Terser AST
- ```
- ```javascript
- // example: accept native Terser AST input and then compress and mangle
- // to produce both code and native AST.
-
- var result = Terser.minify(ast, {
- compress: {},
- mangle: {},
- output: {
- ast: true,
- code: true // optional - faster if false
- }
- });
-
- // result.ast contains native Terser AST
- // result.code contains the minified code in string form.
- ```
-
- ### Working with Terser AST
-
- Traversal and transformation of the native AST can be performed through
- [`TreeWalker`](https://github.com/fabiosantoscode/terser/blob/master/lib/ast.js) and
- [`TreeTransformer`](https://github.com/fabiosantoscode/terser/blob/master/lib/transform.js)
- respectively.
-
- Largely compatible native AST examples can be found in the original UglifyJS
- documentation. See: [tree walker](http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/walk) and
- [tree transform](http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs/transform).
-
- ### ESTree / SpiderMonkey AST
-
- Terser has its own abstract syntax tree format; for
- [practical reasons](http://lisperator.net/blog/uglifyjs-why-not-switching-to-spidermonkey-ast/)
- we can't easily change to using the SpiderMonkey AST internally. However,
- Terser now has a converter which can import a SpiderMonkey AST.
-
- For example [Acorn][acorn] is a super-fast parser that produces a
- SpiderMonkey AST. It has a small CLI utility that parses one file and dumps
- the AST in JSON on the standard output. To use Terser to mangle and
- compress that:
-
- acorn file.js | terser -p spidermonkey -m -c
-
- The `-p spidermonkey` option tells Terser that all input files are not
- JavaScript, but JS code described in SpiderMonkey AST in JSON. Therefore we
- don't use our own parser in this case, but just transform that AST into our
- internal AST.
-
- ### Use Acorn for parsing
-
- More for fun, I added the `-p acorn` option which will use Acorn to do all
- the parsing. If you pass this option, Terser will `require("acorn")`.
-
- Acorn is really fast (e.g. 250ms instead of 380ms on some 650K code), but
- converting the SpiderMonkey tree that Acorn produces takes another 150ms so
- in total it's a bit more than just using Terser's own parser.
-
- [acorn]: https://github.com/ternjs/acorn
- [sm-spec]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U1RGAehQwRypUTovF1KRlpiOFze0b-_2gc6fAH0KY0k
-
- ### Terser Fast Minify Mode
-
- It's not well known, but whitespace removal and symbol mangling accounts
- for 95% of the size reduction in minified code for most JavaScript - not
- elaborate code transforms. One can simply disable `compress` to speed up
- Terser builds by 3 to 4 times.
-
- | d3.js | size | gzip size | time (s) |
- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
- | original | 451,131 | 108,733 | - |
- | terser@3.7.5 mangle=false, compress=false | 316,600 | 85,245 | 0.82 |
- | terser@3.7.5 mangle=true, compress=false | 220,216 | 72,730 | 1.45 |
- | terser@3.7.5 mangle=true, compress=true | 212,046 | 70,954 | 5.87 |
- | babili@0.1.4 | 210,713 | 72,140 | 12.64 |
- | babel-minify@0.4.3 | 210,321 | 72,242 | 48.67 |
- | babel-minify@0.5.0-alpha.01eac1c3 | 210,421 | 72,238 | 14.17 |
-
- To enable fast minify mode from the CLI use:
- ```
- terser file.js -m
- ```
- To enable fast minify mode with the API use:
- ```js
- Terser.minify(code, { compress: false, mangle: true });
- ```
-
- #### Source maps and debugging
-
- Various `compress` transforms that simplify, rearrange, inline and remove code
- are known to have an adverse effect on debugging with source maps. This is
- expected as code is optimized and mappings are often simply not possible as
- some code no longer exists. For highest fidelity in source map debugging
- disable the `compress` option and just use `mangle`.
-
- ### Compiler assumptions
-
- To allow for better optimizations, the compiler makes various assumptions:
-
- - `.toString()` and `.valueOf()` don't have side effects, and for built-in
- objects they have not been overridden.
- - `undefined`, `NaN` and `Infinity` have not been externally redefined.
- - `arguments.callee`, `arguments.caller` and `Function.prototype.caller` are not used.
- - The code doesn't expect the contents of `Function.prototype.toString()` or
- `Error.prototype.stack` to be anything in particular.
- - Getting and setting properties on a plain object does not cause other side effects
- (using `.watch()` or `Proxy`).
- - Object properties can be added, removed and modified (not prevented with
- `Object.defineProperty()`, `Object.defineProperties()`, `Object.freeze()`,
- `Object.preventExtensions()` or `Object.seal()`).
-
- ### Build Tools and Adaptors using Terser
-
- https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/terser
-
- ### Replacing `uglify-es` with `terser` in a project using `yarn`
-
- A number of JS bundlers and uglify wrappers are still using buggy versions
- of `uglify-es` and have not yet upgraded to `terser`. If you are using `yarn`
- you can add the following alias to your project's `package.json` file:
-
- ```js
- "resolutions": {
- "uglify-es": "npm:terser"
- }
- ```
-
- to use `terser` instead of `uglify-es` in all deeply nested dependencies
- without changing any code.
-
- Note: for this change to take effect you must run the following commands
- to remove the existing `yarn` lock file and reinstall all packages:
-
- ```
- $ rm -rf node_modules yarn.lock
- $ yarn
- ```
-
- # Reporting issues
-
- In the terser CLI we use [source-map-support](https://npmjs.com/source-map-support) to produce good error stacks. In your own app, you're expected to enable source-map-support (read their docs) to have nice stack traces that will make good issues.
-
- # README.md Patrons:
-
- *note*: You can support this project on patreon: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/terser_ecmacomp_maintainer"><img src="https://c5.patreon.com/external/logo/become_a_patron_button@2x.png" alt="patron" width="100px" height="auto"></a>. Check out PATRONS.md for our first-tier patrons.
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