Minify JavaScript with UglifyJS2.

Install package with NPM and add it to your development dependencies:

npm install --save-dev gulp-minify

var minify = require('gulp-minify');

gulp.task('compress', function() {
  gulp.src('lib/*.js')
    .pipe(minify({
        ext:{
            src:'-debug.js',
            min:'.js'
        },
        exclude: ['tasks'],
        ignoreFiles: ['.combo.js', '-min.js']
    }))
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'))
});

• ext file extension

• exclude

  Will not minify files in the dirs.

• noSource Will not output the source code in the dest dirs.

• ignoreFiles

  Will not minify files which matches the pattern.

• mangle

  Pass false to skip mangling names.

• output

  Pass an object if you wish to specify additional output options. The defaults are optimized for best compression.

• compress

  Pass an object to specify custom compressor options. Pass false to skip compression completely.

• preserveComments

  A convenience option for options.output.comments. Defaults to preserving no comments.

  • all

    Preserve all comments in code blocks

  • some

    Preserve comments that start with a bang (!) or include a Closure Compiler directive (@preserve, @license, @cc_on)

  • function

    Specify your own comment preservation function. You will be passed the current node and the current comment and are expected to return either true or false.