I am using maven to compress my javascript files using YUI compressor. I have the aggregation work ing and only combining what in want. However i need YUI to compress one folder in my web apps folder. I have specified the source folder but this seems to be ignored. Instead every .js file in src/main/webapps seems to be compressed. I need to leave existing files intact and only compress my files in the directory. Here is my code:
<plugin>
<groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>yuicompressor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<preProcessAggregates>true</preProcessAggregates>
<aggregations>
<aggregation>
<insertNewLine>true</insertNewLine>
<output>${project.basedir}/target/umadesktop/angular/app/single.js</output>
<inputDir>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/angular/app</inputDir>
<includes>
<include>**/*.js</include>
</includes>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*abc.js</exclude>
<exclude>**/compressed.css</exclude>
</excludes>
</aggregation>
</aggregations>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/scripts/**/*.js</exclude>
</excludes>
<jswarn>false</jswarn>
<nosuffix>false</nosuffix>
<sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/angular/app</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/target/umadesktop/angular/app/</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compress_js_css</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compress</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You should take a look to Minify Maven Plugin which sounds just like the thing you need.
Please let me know if you need any help configuring it.