Minification - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Minification rewrites source (typically JavaScript or CSS) to be smaller without changing behavior, by removing whitespace and comments and shortening local identifiers.
In CI
Minification runs in the production build step. Tools like Terser and esbuild also drop dead code, so minified output is both smaller to ship and faster to download.
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