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-#+TITLE: UglifyJS -- a JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier
-#+KEYWORDS: javascript, js, parser, compiler, compressor, mangle, minify, minifier
-#+DESCRIPTION: a JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier in JavaScript
-#+STYLE: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docstyle.css" />
-#+AUTHOR: Mihai Bazon
-#+EMAIL: mihai.bazon@gmail.com
-
-* UglifyJS --- a JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier
-
-This package implements a general-purpose JavaScript
-parser/compressor/beautifier toolkit.  It is developed on [[http://nodejs.org/][NodeJS]], but it
-should work on any JavaScript platform supporting the CommonJS module system
-(and if your platform of choice doesn't support CommonJS, you can easily
-implement it, or discard the =exports.*= lines from UglifyJS sources).
-
-The tokenizer/parser generates an abstract syntax tree from JS code.  You
-can then traverse the AST to learn more about the code, or do various
-manipulations on it.  This part is implemented in [[../lib/parse-js.js][parse-js.js]] and it's a
-port to JavaScript of the excellent [[http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/parse-js/][parse-js]] Common Lisp library from [[http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/][Marijn
-Haverbeke]].
-
-( See [[http://github.com/mishoo/cl-uglify-js][cl-uglify-js]] if you're looking for the Common Lisp version of
-UglifyJS. )
-
-The second part of this package, implemented in [[../lib/process.js][process.js]], inspects and
-manipulates the AST generated by the parser to provide the following:
-
-- ability to re-generate JavaScript code from the AST.  Optionally
-  indented---you can use this if you want to “beautify” a program that has
-  been compressed, so that you can inspect the source.  But you can also run
-  our code generator to print out an AST without any whitespace, so you
-  achieve compression as well.
-
-- shorten variable names (usually to single characters).  Our mangler will
-  analyze the code and generate proper variable names, depending on scope
-  and usage, and is smart enough to deal with globals defined elsewhere, or
-  with =eval()= calls or =with{}= statements.  In short, if =eval()= or
-  =with{}= are used in some scope, then all variables in that scope and any
-  variables in the parent scopes will remain unmangled, and any references
-  to such variables remain unmangled as well.
-
-- various small optimizations that may lead to faster code but certainly
-  lead to smaller code.  Where possible, we do the following:
-
-  - foo["bar"]  ==>  foo.bar
-
-  - remove block brackets ={}=
-
-  - join consecutive var declarations:
-    var a = 10; var b = 20; ==> var a=10,b=20;
-
-  - resolve simple constant expressions: 1 +2 * 3 ==> 7.  We only do the
-    replacement if the result occupies less bytes; for example 1/3 would
-    translate to 0.333333333333, so in this case we don't replace it.
-
-  - consecutive statements in blocks are merged into a sequence; in many
-    cases, this leaves blocks with a single statement, so then we can remove
-    the block brackets.
-
-  - various optimizations for IF statements:
-
-    - if (foo) bar(); else baz(); ==> foo?bar():baz();
-    - if (!foo) bar(); else baz(); ==> foo?baz():bar();
-    - if (foo) bar(); ==> foo&&bar();
-    - if (!foo) bar(); ==> foo||bar();
-    - if (foo) return bar(); else return baz(); ==> return foo?bar():baz();
-    - if (foo) return bar(); else something(); ==> {if(foo)return bar();something()}
-
-  - remove some unreachable code and warn about it (code that follows a
-    =return=, =throw=, =break= or =continue= statement, except
-    function/variable declarations).
-
-** <<Unsafe transformations>>
-
-The following transformations can in theory break code, although they're
-probably safe in most practical cases.  To enable them you need to pass the
-=--unsafe= flag.
-
-*** Calls involving the global Array constructor
-
-The following transformations occur:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC js
-new Array(1, 2, 3, 4)  => [1,2,3,4]
-Array(a, b, c)         => [a,b,c]
-new Array(5)           => Array(5)
-new Array(a)           => Array(a)
-#+END_SRC
-
-These are all safe if the Array name isn't redefined.  JavaScript does allow
-one to globally redefine Array (and pretty much everything, in fact) but I
-personally don't see why would anyone do that.
-
-UglifyJS does handle the case where Array is redefined locally, or even
-globally but with a =function= or =var= declaration.  Therefore, in the
-following cases UglifyJS *doesn't touch* calls or instantiations of Array:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC js
-// case 1.  globally declared variable
-  var Array;
-  new Array(1, 2, 3);
-  Array(a, b);
-
-  // or (can be declared later)
-  new Array(1, 2, 3);
-  var Array;
-
-  // or (can be a function)
-  new Array(1, 2, 3);
-  function Array() { ... }
-
-// case 2.  declared in a function
-  (function(){
-    a = new Array(1, 2, 3);
-    b = Array(5, 6);
-    var Array;
-  })();
-
-  // or
-  (function(Array){
-    return Array(5, 6, 7);
-  })();
-
-  // or
-  (function(){
-    return new Array(1, 2, 3, 4);
-    function Array() { ... }
-  })();
-
-  // etc.
-#+END_SRC
-
-*** =obj.toString()= ==> =obj+“”=
-
-** Install (NPM)
-
-UglifyJS is now available through NPM --- =npm install uglify-js= should do
-the job.
-
-** Install latest code from GitHub
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh
-## clone the repository
-mkdir -p /where/you/wanna/put/it
-cd /where/you/wanna/put/it
-git clone git://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS.git
-
-## make the module available to Node
-mkdir -p ~/.node_libraries/
-cd ~/.node_libraries/
-ln -s /where/you/wanna/put/it/UglifyJS/uglify-js.js
-
-## and if you want the CLI script too:
-mkdir -p ~/bin
-cd ~/bin
-ln -s /where/you/wanna/put/it/UglifyJS/bin/uglifyjs
-  # (then add ~/bin to your $PATH if it's not there already)
-#+END_SRC
-
-** Usage
-
-There is a command-line tool that exposes the functionality of this library
-for your shell-scripting needs:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC sh
-uglifyjs [ options... ] [ filename ]
-#+END_SRC
-
-=filename= should be the last argument and should name the file from which
-to read the JavaScript code.  If you don't specify it, it will read code
-from STDIN.
-
-Supported options:
-
-- =-b= or =--beautify= --- output indented code; when passed, additional
-  options control the beautifier:
-
-  - =-i N= or =--indent N= --- indentation level (number of spaces)
-
-  - =-q= or =--quote-keys= --- quote keys in literal objects (by default,
-    only keys that cannot be identifier names will be quotes).
-
-- =--ascii= --- pass this argument to encode non-ASCII characters as
-  =\uXXXX= sequences.  By default UglifyJS won't bother to do it and will
-  output Unicode characters instead.  (the output is always encoded in UTF8,
-  but if you pass this option you'll only get ASCII).
-
-- =-nm= or =--no-mangle= --- don't mangle variable names
-
-- =-ns= or =--no-squeeze= --- don't call =ast_squeeze()= (which does various
-  optimizations that result in smaller, less readable code).
-
-- =-mt= or =--mangle-toplevel= --- mangle names in the toplevel scope too
-  (by default we don't do this).
-
-- =--no-seqs= --- when =ast_squeeze()= is called (thus, unless you pass
-  =--no-squeeze=) it will reduce consecutive statements in blocks into a
-  sequence.  For example, "a = 10; b = 20; foo();" will be written as
-  "a=10,b=20,foo();".  In various occasions, this allows us to discard the
-  block brackets (since the block becomes a single statement).  This is ON
-  by default because it seems safe and saves a few hundred bytes on some
-  libs that I tested it on, but pass =--no-seqs= to disable it.
-
-- =--no-dead-code= --- by default, UglifyJS will remove code that is
-  obviously unreachable (code that follows a =return=, =throw=, =break= or
-  =continue= statement and is not a function/variable declaration).  Pass
-  this option to disable this optimization.
-
-- =-nc= or =--no-copyright= --- by default, =uglifyjs= will keep the initial
-  comment tokens in the generated code (assumed to be copyright information
-  etc.).  If you pass this it will discard it.
-
-- =-o filename= or =--output filename= --- put the result in =filename=.  If
-  this isn't given, the result goes to standard output (or see next one).
-
-- =--overwrite= --- if the code is read from a file (not from STDIN) and you
-  pass =--overwrite= then the output will be written in the same file.
-
-- =--ast= --- pass this if you want to get the Abstract Syntax Tree instead
-  of JavaScript as output.  Useful for debugging or learning more about the
-  internals.
-
-- =-v= or =--verbose= --- output some notes on STDERR (for now just how long
-  each operation takes).
-
-- =--unsafe= --- enable other additional optimizations that are known to be
-  unsafe in some contrived situations, but could still be generally useful.
-  For now only this:
-
-  - foo.toString()  ==>  foo+""
-
-- =--max-line-len= (default 32K characters) --- add a newline after around
-  32K characters.  I've seen both FF and Chrome croak when all the code was
-  on a single line of around 670K.  Pass --max-line-len 0 to disable this
-  safety feature.
-
-- =--reserved-names= --- some libraries rely on certain names to be used, as
-  pointed out in issue #92 and #81, so this option allow you to exclude such
-  names from the mangler.  For example, to keep names =require= and =$super=
-  intact you'd specify --reserved-names "require,$super".
-
-- =--inline-script= -- when you want to include the output literally in an
-  HTML =<script>= tag you can use this option to prevent =</script= from
-  showing up in the output.
-
-- =--lift-vars= -- when you pass this, UglifyJS will apply the following
-  transformations (see the notes in API, =ast_lift_variables=):
-
-  - put all =var= declarations at the start of the scope
-  - make sure a variable is declared only once
-  - discard unused function arguments
-  - discard unused inner (named) functions
-  - finally, try to merge assignments into that one =var= declaration, if
-    possible.
-
-*** API
-
-To use the library from JavaScript, you'd do the following (example for
-NodeJS):
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC js
-var jsp = require("uglify-js").parser;
-var pro = require("uglify-js").uglify;
-
-var orig_code = "... JS code here";
-var ast = jsp.parse(orig_code); // parse code and get the initial AST
-ast = pro.ast_mangle(ast); // get a new AST with mangled names
-ast = pro.ast_squeeze(ast); // get an AST with compression optimizations
-var final_code = pro.gen_code(ast); // compressed code here
-#+END_SRC
-
-The above performs the full compression that is possible right now.  As you
-can see, there are a sequence of steps which you can apply.  For example if
-you want compressed output but for some reason you don't want to mangle
-variable names, you would simply skip the line that calls
-=pro.ast_mangle(ast)=.
-
-Some of these functions take optional arguments.  Here's a description:
-
-- =jsp.parse(code, strict_semicolons)= -- parses JS code and returns an AST.
-  =strict_semicolons= is optional and defaults to =false=.  If you pass
-  =true= then the parser will throw an error when it expects a semicolon and
-  it doesn't find it.  For most JS code you don't want that, but it's useful
-  if you want to strictly sanitize your code.
-
-- =pro.ast_lift_variables(ast)= -- merge and move =var= declarations to the
-  scop of the scope; discard unused function arguments or variables; discard
-  unused (named) inner functions.  It also tries to merge assignments
-  following the =var= declaration into it.
-
-  If your code is very hand-optimized concerning =var= declarations, this
-  lifting variable declarations might actually increase size.  For me it
-  helps out.  On jQuery it adds 865 bytes (243 after gzip).  YMMV.  Also
-  note that (since it's not enabled by default) this operation isn't yet
-  heavily tested (please report if you find issues!).
-
-  Note that although it might increase the image size (on jQuery it gains
-  865 bytes, 243 after gzip) it's technically more correct: in certain
-  situations, dead code removal might drop variable declarations, which
-  would not happen if the variables are lifted in advance.
-
-  Here's an example of what it does:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC js
-function f(a, b, c, d, e) {
-    var q;
-    var w;
-    w = 10;
-    q = 20;
-    for (var i = 1; i < 10; ++i) {
-        var boo = foo(a);
-    }
-    for (var i = 0; i < 1; ++i) {
-        var boo = bar(c);
-    }
-    function foo(){ ... }
-    function bar(){ ... }
-    function baz(){ ... }
-}
-
-// transforms into ==>
-
-function f(a, b, c) {
-    var i, boo, w = 10, q = 20;
-    for (i = 1; i < 10; ++i) {
-        boo = foo(a);
-    }
-    for (i = 0; i < 1; ++i) {
-        boo = bar(c);
-    }
-    function foo() { ... }
-    function bar() { ... }
-}
-#+END_SRC
-
-- =pro.ast_mangle(ast, options)= -- generates a new AST containing mangled
-  (compressed) variable and function names.  It supports the following
-  options:
-
-  - =toplevel= -- mangle toplevel names (by default we don't touch them).
-  - =except= -- an array of names to exclude from compression.
-
-- =pro.ast_squeeze(ast, options)= -- employs further optimizations designed
-  to reduce the size of the code that =gen_code= would generate from the
-  AST.  Returns a new AST.  =options= can be a hash; the supported options
-  are:
-
-  - =make_seqs= (default true) which will cause consecutive statements in a
-    block to be merged using the "sequence" (comma) operator
-
-  - =dead_code= (default true) which will remove unreachable code.
-
-- =pro.gen_code(ast, options)= -- generates JS code from the AST.  By
-  default it's minified, but using the =options= argument you can get nicely
-  formatted output.  =options= is, well, optional :-) and if you pass it it
-  must be an object and supports the following properties (below you can see
-  the default values):
-
-  - =beautify: false= -- pass =true= if you want indented output
-  - =indent_start: 0= (only applies when =beautify= is =true=) -- initial
-    indentation in spaces
-  - =indent_level: 4= (only applies when =beautify= is =true=) --
-    indentation level, in spaces (pass an even number)
-  - =quote_keys: false= -- if you pass =true= it will quote all keys in
-    literal objects
-  - =space_colon: false= (only applies when =beautify= is =true=) -- wether
-    to put a space before the colon in object literals
-  - =ascii_only: false= -- pass =true= if you want to encode non-ASCII
-    characters as =\uXXXX=.
-  - =inline_script: false= -- pass =true= to escape occurrences of
-    =</script= in strings
-
-*** Beautifier shortcoming -- no more comments
-
-The beautifier can be used as a general purpose indentation tool.  It's
-useful when you want to make a minified file readable.  One limitation,
-though, is that it discards all comments, so you don't really want to use it
-to reformat your code, unless you don't have, or don't care about, comments.
-
-In fact it's not the beautifier who discards comments --- they are dumped at
-the parsing stage, when we build the initial AST.  Comments don't really
-make sense in the AST, and while we could add nodes for them, it would be
-inconvenient because we'd have to add special rules to ignore them at all
-the processing stages.
-
-** Compression -- how good is it?
-
-Here are updated statistics.  (I also updated my Google Closure and YUI
-installations).
-
-We're still a lot better than YUI in terms of compression, though slightly
-slower.  We're still a lot faster than Closure, and compression after gzip
-is comparable.
-
-| File                        | UglifyJS         | UglifyJS+gzip | Closure          | Closure+gzip | YUI              | YUI+gzip |
-|-----------------------------+------------------+---------------+------------------+--------------+------------------+----------|
-| jquery-1.6.2.js             | 91001 (0:01.59)  |         31896 | 90678 (0:07.40)  |        31979 | 101527 (0:01.82) |    34646 |
-| paper.js                    | 142023 (0:01.65) |         43334 | 134301 (0:07.42) |        42495 | 173383 (0:01.58) |    48785 |
-| prototype.js                | 88544 (0:01.09)  |         26680 | 86955 (0:06.97)  |        26326 | 92130 (0:00.79)  |    28624 |
-| thelib-full.js (DynarchLIB) | 251939 (0:02.55) |         72535 | 249911 (0:09.05) |        72696 | 258869 (0:01.94) |    76584 |
-
-** Bugs?
-
-Unfortunately, for the time being there is no automated test suite.  But I
-ran the compressor manually on non-trivial code, and then I tested that the
-generated code works as expected.  A few hundred times.
-
-DynarchLIB was started in times when there was no good JS minifier.
-Therefore I was quite religious about trying to write short code manually,
-and as such DL contains a lot of syntactic hacks[1] such as “foo == bar ?  a
-= 10 : b = 20”, though the more readable version would clearly be to use
-“if/else”.
-
-Since the parser/compressor runs fine on DL and jQuery, I'm quite confident
-that it's solid enough for production use.  If you can identify any bugs,
-I'd love to hear about them ([[http://groups.google.com/group/uglifyjs][use the Google Group]] or email me directly).
-
-[1] I even reported a few bugs and suggested some fixes in the original
-    [[http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/parse-js/][parse-js]] library, and Marijn pushed fixes literally in minutes.
-
-** Links
-
-- Twitter: [[http://twitter.com/UglifyJS][@UglifyJS]]
-- Project at GitHub: [[http://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS][http://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS]]
-- Google Group: [[http://groups.google.com/group/uglifyjs][http://groups.google.com/group/uglifyjs]]
-- Common Lisp JS parser: [[http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/parse-js/][http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/parse-js/]]
-- JS-to-Lisp compiler: [[http://github.com/marijnh/js][http://github.com/marijnh/js]]
-- Common Lisp JS uglifier: [[http://github.com/mishoo/cl-uglify-js][http://github.com/mishoo/cl-uglify-js]]
-
-** License
-
-UglifyJS is released under the BSD license:
-
-#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
-Copyright 2010 (c) Mihai Bazon <mihai.bazon@gmail.com>
-Based on parse-js (http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/parse-js/).
-
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-are met:
-
-    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above
-      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
-      disclaimer.
-
-    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
-      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
-      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
-      provided with the distribution.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER “AS IS” AND ANY
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
-IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE
-LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
-OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
-PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
-PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
-THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
-TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
-THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
-SUCH DAMAGE.
-#+END_EXAMPLE