[TYPO3-english] Minifying JS and CSS, good tools or extensions?

[Loek Hilgersom]

Just for anyone who is interested, by coincidence I found the solution: the 
problem was related to the NFS filesystem which this site is using, and the 
following patch resolves it. [1]

Loek

[1] 
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-js_css_optimizer/repository/revisions/81913/diff/trunk/classes/hooks/class.tx_js_css_optimizer_hooks.php



On 25-04-14 15:33, Loek Hilgersom wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using the extension js_css_optimizer to concatenate and minify JS and
> CSS files and it worked almost, except that I keep having issues on a large
> multi-domain site: apparently it re-generates the cache files quite frequently,
> eventhough the CSS and JS hadn't changed. And after re-generating, every so
> often something goes wrong: either some files are not generated, or the
> references to files are not updated in the HTML (maybe the page cache isn't
> cleared?), resulting in one or more sites without stylesheets or JS.
>
> Anyone knows a solution, or suggestions for an extension or tools that might do
> a better job?
>
> I know I could do this in the IDE, use LESS or SASS etc., but there are more
> developers contributing parts to the site, and there is a lot of legacy in the
> site that will be a lot of work to refactor, so I'm looking for a solution that
> works without too much refactoring.
>
> Thanks,
> Loek