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Rob Larsen edited this page Jan 29, 2013
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The Ant Build Script is a tool that optimizes your code for production use on the web.
It's designed to work with HTML5 Boilerplate with minimal coniguration, but it's also here to serve as a rich source of Ant tasks you can use as the basis for your own custom build scripts.
Faster page load times, improved workflow and happy end users :)
- Combines and minifies javascript (via Closure Compiler)
- Inlines stylesheets specified using
@importin your CSS - Combines and minifies CSS (using YUI Compressor)
- Optimizes JPGs and PNGs (with jpegtran, advpng & optipng)
- Basic to aggressive html minification (via htmlcompressor)
- Revises the file names of your assets so that you can use heavy caching (1 year expires).
- Updates your HTML to reference these new hyper-optimized CSS + JS files
- Updates your HTML to use the minified jQuery instead of the development version
- Remove unneeded references from HTML (like a root folder favicon)
- Runs your JavaScript through a code quality tool like JSLint or JSHint (optional)
- Runs your CSS through a code quality tool, CSSLint (optional)
- Cache-busting support for a module directory
- Optionally precompile LESS formatted CSS
- Optionally precompile SASS formatted CSS
- Optionally output JSDOC3 documentation
- Optionally convert your JPGs to progressive JPGs
##How to Use it