Minification of the JavaScript files

Last update: May 22, 2024

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Adaptive Forms

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Minification removes from the source code the redundant characters, such as white space, new lines, and comments. This improves the performance by reducing the size of the code. While minification does not impact the functionality, it reduces the readability of the code.

To generate minified code for semantic changes, follow these steps.

Copy client-html/src/main/webapp/js from src-package on filesystem.

NOTE
See Introduction to Customizing AEM Forms workspace for more details about the packages.
Update paths in main.js located under client-html/src/main/webapp/js, for added/updated models/views.

For example, the addition of a new Sharequeue model, say mySharequeue, change:
sharequeuemodel : pathprefix + 'runtime/models/sharequeue',
To
sharequeuemodel : pathprefix + 'runtime/myModels/mySharequeue',

Update registry-config.xml, located at client-html/src/main/webapp/js/resource_generator, in case there is change/addition of alias in main.js.

For example, the addition of a new Sharequeue model, say mySharequeue, change:

<sharequeue
            name="sharequeue"
            path="runtime/models/sharequeue.js"
            service="service"/>


<sharequeue
            name="sharequeue"
            path="runtime/myModels/mySharequeue.js"
            service="service"/>

At client-html/src/main/webapp/js/minifier, run command:
mvn clean install
It generates a minified-files folder, under client-html/src/main/webapp/js with minified main.js and registry.js.

NOTE

Minification only works on a 64-bit JVM.

NOTE

If you minify, your upgrade is impacted.

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