Terser VS Prepack

Example: You've got a main.js file that's as long as a Tolstoy novel. Fix: Use tools like UglifyJS or Terser to minify your code. They'll squeeze out all the unnecessary bits and give you a sleeker, faster-loading file. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

They can do it, it is just turned off by default and require more advanced configuration. https://github.com/terser/terser#cli-mangling-property-names.... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Minifying is a common practice for optimizing production code. (for example, using Terser to minify and mangle JavaScript). - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

Terser is JavaScript compressor that can minified specific method names. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Every release build of React Native uses terser to reduce the size of your JavaScript. And it operation can be omitted for Staging/Beta builds. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

If I understand it correctly, it exchanges execution speed (by not using JIT) for faster starts. Instead, they could pick up the old FB project https://prepack.io/ to optimize both start AND execution speed. It would be very interesting to see it together with node's snapshots: https://blog.logrocket.com/snapshot-flags-node-js-v18-8/, which reduces the start significantly. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

For those uninitiated, Prepack was a neat JavaScript code optimizer. It eliminated computations that could be done at compile time. https://prepack.io/ The project has been dead for quite a while, but it has valid use cases to this day. Source: about 1 year ago

Surely this is the job for something like https://prepack.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

Some real examples in JavaScript can be seen on Prepack[2]. Consequently it is natural to wonder whether we can AOT compile components of client side frameworks, to achieve a reduction in the final bundle size, but also to increase application execution speed. Source: over 2 years ago