It is a little more than the menus.  This contains a detailed list of the modifications.

It should work fine with 4.8.

Hi,

I want to share the method I found to minifier javascripts before embed they in dll.
This can be performed simply by adding the following task in DNNModule.target and call it in BeforeBuild target:

<Target Name="EmbedJavascripts">
<CallTarget Targets="EmbedCompressedJavaScript" Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' " />
<CallTarget Targets="EmbedDebugJavaScript" Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' " />
</Target>
<Target Name="EmbedCompressedJavaScript">
<CreateItem Include="$(JavascriptSourceDir)\*.js">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="JSSourceFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<Exec Command="java -jar yuicompressor-2.3.5.jar %(JSSourceFiles.Identity) -o $(JavascriptMinifiedDir)\%(JSSourceFiles.Filename).js )"
WorkingDirectory="$(YuiCompressorDir)" />
<CreateItem Include="$(JavascriptMinifiedDir)\*.js">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="JSMinFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<CreateItem Include="@(JSMinFiles)">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="EmbeddedResource" />
</CreateItem>
</Target>
<Target Name="EmbedDebugJavaScript">
<CreateItem Include="$(JavascriptSourceDir)\*.js">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="JSSourceFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<CreateItem Include="@(JSSourceFiles)">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="EmbeddedResource" />
</CreateItem>
</Target>

So when I build the project for release,all source javascript files are substituted by their minified version.
The yui compressor can be found here.

I hope this could be usefull.

Regards 
Manzoni Fausto

I use this tool in my ajax modules based on your template.

The difference between JSCompress and Yui tool is quite simple:

JSCompress
"Compresses JavaScript source files by removing comments and unnecessary whitespace, which typically reduces the size by half and results in faster downloads and code that is harder to read."

Yui Compressor
"It starts by analyzing the source JavaScript file to understand how it is structured. It then prints out the token stream, replacing all local symbols by a 1 (or 2, or 3) letter symbol wherever such a substitution is appropriate ..."

For example:
_MyMethod: function(MyFirstLocal, MySecondLocal,MyThirdLocal){
MyFirstLocal = MyFirstLocal + 1;
MySecondLocal= MySecondLocal + 2;
MyThirdLocal= MyThirdLocal + 3;
}

Will become:
_MyMethod: function(a, b,c){
a= a+ 1;
b= b+ 2;
c= c+ 3;
}

naturally without withespaces and comments

Regards 
Manzoni Fausto