fitztrev/laravel-html-minify

Minifies the HTML output of Laravel 4 applications

UPDATE for Laravel 5/5.1+

Read my preferred way of minifying HTML in Laravel 5/5.1+ apps here: Using Gulp to Minify Laravel Blade Templates, _(*1)

Laravel HTML Minify

For Laravel 4 - See here for L5+

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About

This package compresses the HTML output from your Laravel 4 application, seamlessly reducing the overall response size of your pages., _(*3)

Other scripts that I've seen will compress the HTML output on-the-fly for each request. Instead, this package extends the Blade compiler to save the compiled template files to disk in their compressed state, reducing the overhead for each request., _(*4)

Why?

Even with gzip enabled, there is still an improvement in the response size for HTML content-type documents., _(*5)

Installation

1. Add "fitztrev/laravel-html-minify": "1.*" to composer.json.
2. Run composer update
3. Add Fitztrev\LaravelHtmlMinify\LaravelHtmlMinifyServiceProvider to the list of providers in app/config/app.php.
4. Important: You won't see any changes until you edit your *.blade.php template files. Once Laravel detects a change, it will recompile them, which is when this package will go to work. To force all views to be recompiled, just run this command: find . -name "*.blade.php" -exec touch {} \;

Config

Optionally, you can choose to customize how the minifier functions for different environments. Publish the configuration file and edit accordingly., _(*6)

$ php artisan config:publish fitztrev/laravel-html-minify

Options

• enabled - boolean, default true

If you are using a javascript framework that conflicts with Blade's tags, you can change them., _(*7)

• blade.contentTags - array, default {{ and }}
• blade.escapedContentTags - array, default {{{ and }}}

Skipping minification

To prevent the minification of a view file, add skipmin somewhere in the view., _(*8)

{{-- skipmin --}}
<!-- skipmin -->