CDNJS about document-register-element

[WebReflection]

sorry ... what?

[isaacewing]

for example, when i include the CDNJS repo like below

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/document-register-element/0.5.3/document-register-element.js"
></script>

Could you also add a version that has the minified version of the JS file like
document-register-element.min.js"

[WebReflection]

the purpose of minification is to reduce the overall amount of bytes, right?
Why would you want 4 extra bytes per each minified URL? That would be eventually a no-brainer for a .max version, or a .debug one, who cares if the name contains those extra 4 bytes or more.

Accordingly, you might find that the CDN document-register-element.js is the minified version while to have the one that doesn't care about minification you can use document-register-element.max.js

As summary, there is a build process with a toolchain that makes files generation a straight forward and simple one shot procedure. If the purpose of minifing is to reduce as much as possible a file size, I find it illogical to have all minified files containing those pointless extra 4 .min chars so welcome to my world where the unminified version is explicitly called .max.js and the production one doesn't need any reminder in its own name and doesn't surely need to be bigger: it's minified for a reason!

Best Regards

[isaacewing]

I suppose that's a good point and I know the file is already minified, adding the .min. to the file name just maps well with all the other libraries in the CDN as they all have the *.min.js to the file so when I write a JS script that does a batch download for dependency injection, instead of looping through an array of files to download, I have to have a one-off hook that tests specifically for your file since there is no .min version. That's why I was requesting that.

[WebReflection]

when I write a JS script that does a batch download for dependency injection

If I understand correctly, that means you are not using the CDN for what it's being created for and you most likely need a hook to this repository and update whatever download only once and only when a new release is available.

You can grab it directly from here or you can simply use npm like Google AMP is doing already.

The fact everyone else is doing it wrong doesn't usually mean who actually thought about it should do it wrong as well so I am afraid all my projects are like this and I'm here to tell everyone else they can improve instead of generating automatically dumbly named files.

Apologies for any inconvenient, but I am sure you've got my point so thanks in advance for your understanding.

[WebReflection]

the TL;DR version of this problem is: nobody needs non-minified version in production if not during debugging. That shouild be the naming exception, not the default one with a pointless .min in it.