Compressing Cookbook

There is a large overhead associated with downloading many JavaScript files. Server side compression makes it simple to concatenate and compress your code into one file.

Compress Script

To compress your application, run the following command from a console:

C:\workspace\Cookbook>js cookbook\scripts\build.js
   steal/steal.js
   ...
   ignore ../steal/dev/dev.js
   ...
Package #0: 'cookbook/production.js'.

Verify that production.js was created by checking your 'cookbook' folder.

Switch to Production Mode

Switch to production mode by changing the script tag to include steal.production.js:

<script type='text/javascript' 
       src='../steal/steal.production.js?cookbook'>
</script>

Reload and verify

Reload your page. Only two JavaScript files will load: steal.production.js and production.js. Not bad considering 28 files are loaded in development mode.

When you're ready, learn how to Document Cookbook