Does EDS handle javascript and CSS minification and versioning?

[andyshreve]

This is a 2 part question regarding EDS handling of javascript and CSS.

Part 1: AEM 6.5 has a feature that minifies javascript and CSS. Does EDS have a similar ability or is this an optimization step that must happen inside the GIT repo?

Part 2: Adobe AEM Commons has a "Versioned Clientlibs" feature that adds a new cache-busting string to a file path when a clientlib is updated. Does EDS have a similar ability or is there some other process?

[konstantyn_diachenko · Accepted solution]

Hi @andyshreve ,

1) EDS doesn't have this feature out of the box. However, there is an example how you can use SCSS for your project: https://github.com/sachioross/helix-project-boilerplate-sass . Based on this example you can implement minifying.

Note: most likely you will need to keep 2 version of files in repo: {resource}.scss, {resource}.min.css, {resource}.js, {resource}.min.js

2) EDS doesn't have this feature out of the box and it's not needed, because JS/CSS are returned with ETag and Last-Modified header that solves problem with cache as well. I'd not suggest applying long term caching for your JS/CSS with additional headers feature. 

Best regards,

Kostiantyn Diachenko.