Juicer: Command Line Tool for Shipping Frontend Code.

By Nate
Mar 23, 2011 • 9:34 AM
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Juicer is like CSSEmbed on, uh, steroids. Worth checking out for anything more than the smallest of projects.

figure out which files depend on each other and merge them together, reducing the number of http requests per page view, thus improving performance

use YUI Compressor or Google Closure Compiler to compress code, thus improving performance

verify that your JavaScript is safe to minify/compress by running JsLint on it

cycle asset hosts in CSS files

add “cache busters” to URLs in CSS files

recalculate relative URLs in CSS files, as well as convert them to absolute (or convert absolute URLs to relative URLs)

embed images into stylesheets using data-uris