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I'm a kind of big rookie, using Netbeans 6.9 as a PHP dev tool.

Currently I do develop and test locally on my PC using XAMPP/Apache/MySQL and once done, use Netbeans "upload" facility to the production server on the web.

I was wondering if there's a Netbeans tool capable of minifying js/CSS files on upload, or a tool to minify the whole "production" environement, on request.

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  • This might be a late comment, but this question appears on top search result.Therefore, I have a question. If you have tried the plugin, can you manage to change the output directory ? Commented Feb 4, 2014 at 9:35
  • Sorry, but I haven't tried. Commented Feb 4, 2014 at 14:30
  • it's ok, thanks. This plug in needs to be updated to allow more customization such as change the build directory path and name. Commented Feb 5, 2014 at 8:54

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Netbeans JS CSS Minify Plugin : Download From Here

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Break url. Is'nt working.
Is there an alternate location for this plugin?
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Not integrated with Netbeans but will do the trick for what you want: http://code.google.com/p/minify/

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I personally prefer the YUI Compressor (developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor). Same thing though :D
Is there a best practice to minify only the "production" website?
In terms of best practice, "minify" your code before you put it into production is really only suggestion I can make. My suggestion is to write a script to minify your code when you are ready to push to production.
If you have numerous scripts, it'd be good to combine them into a single script so the browser is making a single HTTP request instead of a dozen requests. The file will be larger, but if it's minified, it shouldn't be terrible. I hate Wordpress blogs that have 22 JS files and 30 CSS files.
Nathan, same here. I'm looking at W3 Total cache, seems quite nice doing a part of the job. Needs tuning and some drawbacks: it looks like it can cache and minify external JS (according to YSlow I have 26... ARRRGGHHH!!!), however you will have to continuously check for updated versions of cached JS....
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I usually write a deployment script that does all these things for me: It copies the current development version to a deployment folder, filtering out files I don't need, generating the correct settings files, and a bunch of other deployment-related tasks. The result is a folder that matches the folder structure on the web server exactly; from there, all I need to do is upload everything. On *nix systems, this is even more powerful because pretty much everything is designed to be scriptable. If you adopt such a scheme, all you need is a scriptable minifier, add it to the deployment script and you're all set.

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At the moment Netbeans itself is capable to mantain the same structure on the production server in such a way, once a source file is ready to be deployed, I just force "upload" and Netbeans will do the rest, storing the source file accordingly in the proper folder on the production server....

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