Closure Compiler Reviews and details

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• [AskJS] Source Filename and Linenumber References in Translated Code

  I’m not exactly sure what you are trying to do but JavaScript Source Maps basically do this same thing with browsers and they use https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/. Source: about 1 year ago

• [AskJS] Is there a detailed comparison chart that shows what's supported in JavaScript ES5 versus ES6?

  I'm using the Google Closure Compiler. I believe it has similar capabilities. Source: about 1 year ago

• Minimal test and performance check of new GHC Javascript backend

  In a real world scenario you'd probably run the resulting JS through Closure Compiler. It would be nice to see how that affects both code size and performance. Source: over 1 year ago

• Predicting Google Closures (2013)

  Kind of funny that Google actually does have a product called the "Google Closure compiler". It creates different kinds of compilations though. https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Bro, can you help me with the problem? -friend from McDonalds

  Partially, depending on what's used it also optimizes the javascript code. See Google's closure compiler for more info. Source: almost 2 years ago

• [AskJS] A way to rewrite variable names during build?

  The Google Closure compiler should do the tricky but. I'm not sure how up to date it is https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler. Source: over 2 years ago

• From TypeScript to ReScript

  [2]: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• When I go to for example Google Docs, and Inspect Element, why do the JavaScript scripts look like nonsense?

  Google uses Closure Compiler for their JavaScript. It turns readable JavaScript into optimized and minimized JavaScript. They are working from readable source code. What you see is the result of the compiler. Source: over 2 years ago

• Thought on J language name

  …and even then, it was easy to verbally confuse Clojure with Google’s Closure compiler - which got extra fun when ClojureJS brought Closure into the Clojureverse. 😬. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Where to start with getting back into front end?

  Yeah, it's a mess. Learn CSS. For real. Use the cascade, it's there for a reason. CSS has variables and animations and can even do interactivity. Vanilla JS will take you far if you learn it thoroughly. (MDN[0] is your friend) ES Modules exist and work natively in the browser. Use them to organize your code. React is crazy popular, learning it is good to have it on your résumé if nothing else, but it needs huge... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago