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Apr 13, 20231 min read

Using AI in software development #1 - Minification of the code

AI can optimize code of a web page through various techniques. Here are some tips for minification of the code.



Minification

This involves removing unnecessary characters, white spaces, and comments from the code to reduce its size, thus making the page load faster.


Example 1 - HTML Minification:

Original HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>My Website</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Welcome to my website</h1>
  <p>This is a paragraph</p>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    function myFunction() {
      document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "Hello World!";
    }
  </script>
</body>
</html>

Minified HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>My Website</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"></head><body><h1>Welcome to my website</h1><p>This is a paragraph</p><script type="text/javascript">function myFunction(){document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML="Hello World!";}</script></body></html>


Example 2 - CSS Minification:

Original CSS code:

h1 {
  color: red;
  font-size: 24px;
  text-decoration: underline;
}
p {
  color: blue;
  font-size: 16px;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

Minified CSS code:

h1{color:red;font-size:24px;text-decoration:underline}p{color:blue;font-size:16px;margin-top:20px}


Example 3 - JavaScript Minification:

Original JavaScript code:

function addNumbers(x, y) {
  var result = x + y;
  return result;
}

Minified JavaScript code:

function addNumbers(n,t){return n+t}

In each of these examples, the minified code is shorter and has removed whitespace, comments, and unnecessary characters to reduce the size of the code, making it faster to load on a web page.

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