dist

Nightly builds

There are nightly builds available for download here. Binaries are generated from main branch every night.

Please be aware: nightly builds might have critical bugs. It's not recommended for use in production and no support provided.

Build Process

Distribution location of compiled, bundled, transpiled, and compressed files.

📖 Please see /bin/README.md For a list of bin scripts used within the build pipeline.

Glossary

• Content Negotiation
• MDN MIME Types List
• MDN HTTP MIME Types
• WHATWG MIME Types
• WHATWG MIME Sniffing
• WHATWG/W3C approval of media types
• IETF Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures (rfc6838)

ECMAScript Standardization

Solves the "Duplicate Directory" problem - https://github.com/dherman/defense-of-dot-js/blob/master/proposal.md#poly-packages

• TC39 - ECMAScript formerly TC39-TG1)
• IANA application/ecmascript Media Type
• IETF ECMAScript Media Types Updates
• ECMASCript Media Type Specification (rfc4329 Section 8.2)
• Why you should know application/ecmascript

References

• Correct usage of mime types - bmeck/I-D#16
• 2Ality Module Specifiers - http://2ality.com/2017/05/es-module-specifiers.html
• Point script to module script WHATWG - whatwg/html#1013
• WHATWG Fetch Preload desitinations and module scripts - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838
• ESM (ECMAScript Module) Detection in Node.js - https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/ES6-Module-Detection-in-Node#detection-problem

Javascript Standardization

• IANA application/javascript Media Type
• Javascript Media Type Specification (rfc4329 Section 7.2)

snuggsi.min.es.br

Mime Type : application/ecmascript (Specification)

Weight : ~ 1,469 OCTETS (1.3kiloBytes)

snuggsi.min.js.br

Mime Type : application/javascript (Specification)

Weight : ~ 1,726 OCTETS (1.6kiloBytes)

Networking

• MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)
• OCTET
• (Ethernet) Frame
• Difference between Ethernet frame and Packet

Pipeline

ECMAScript Bundle (snuggsi.es)

Mime Type : application/ecmascript (Specification)

snuggsi.es (bundled)

• Uses cat command for creating ECMAScript bundle.

elements/*.es ➡️ snuggsi.es

ECMAScript 5 Transpilation (snuggsi.js)

Mime Type : application/javascript (Specification)

File Extension: .js

snuggsi.js

• Uses buble.js

snuggsi.es ➡️ snuggsi.js

Minification (snuggsi.min.*)

Mime Type : application/ecmascript (Specification)

Mime Type : application/javascript (Specification)

snuggsi.es ➡️ snuggsi.min.es

(Uses Uses uglify-es)

snuggsi.js ➡️ snuggsi.min.js

(Uses UglifyJS)

Compression

⚠️ Please read why Internet Explorer won't let DEFLATE be great. here ,here , here ,and here ⚠️

snuggsi handles the following content encoding tokens:

• gzip

• zlib

• brotli

• deflate

• rfc1951

• DEFLATE format - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE

• HTTP Compression

• Accept-Encoding

• Content-Encoding

• Content-Encoding Tokens

• Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms

• Great article on compression Links

Brotli Compression (snuggsi.min.*.br)

snuggsi.min.es ➡️ snuggsi.min.es.br

snuggsi.min.js ➡️ snuggsi.min.js.br

Browser Support

• http://caniuse.com/#search=brotli
• Google Chrome has supported Brotli since version 49
• Microsoft Edge supports Brotli since version 15
• Mozilla Firefox implemented Brotli in version 44
• Opera supports Brotli since version 36
• Safari supports Brotli as of version 10, released September 20, 2016

Server Support

• Apache (mod_brotli) - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_brotli.html
• IIS (IIS Brotli) - https://iis.net/downloads/community/2016/03/iis-brotli
• Express (shrink-ray) - https://github.com/aickin/shrink-ray
• NGINX (ngx_brotli) - https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli
• Go (compress) - https://github.com/dsnet/compress
• Node (brotli) - https://npmjs.com/package/brotli
• Ruby (brotli) - https://github.com/miyucy/brotli

Links

• Brotli Compressed Data Format (rfc7932)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli
• https://certsimple.com/blog/nginx-brotli
• https://blogs.akamai.com/2016/02/understanding-brotlis-potential.html
• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/better-than-gzip-compression-with-brotli

GZip Compression rfc1952 (snuggsi.min.*.gz)

snuggsi.min.es ➡️ snuggsi.min.es.gz

snuggsi.min.js ➡️ snuggsi.min.js.gz

a gzip file/stream contains:

• a 10-byte header, containing a magic number, a version number and a time stamp
• optional extra headers, such as the original file name,
• a body, containing a DEFLATE-compressed payload
• an 8-byte footer, containing a CRC-32 checksum and the length of the original uncompressed data

Browser Support

• http://caniuse.com/#search=gzip
• http://schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/browser.htm
• Netscape 6+ (Netscape 4-5 does, but with some bugs)
• Internet Explorer 5.5+ (July 2000) and IE 4 if set to HTTP/1.1
• Opera 5+ (June 2000)
• Lynx 2.6+ (some time before 1999)
• Firefox 0.9.5+ (October 2001)
• Chrome since forever
• Safari since forever (as far as I can tell)

Server Support

• http://gzip.org

Links

• GZIP format - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib
• rfc1952

Zlib Compression (snuggsi.min.*.zlib)

snuggsi.min.es ➡️ snuggsi.min.es.zlib

snuggsi.min.js ➡️ snuggsi.min.js.zlib

Links

• Zopfli Optimization: Literally Free Bandwidth - Coding Horror
  • ZLIB format - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib
  • rfc1950

Deflate Compression (snuggsi.min.*.deflate)

snuggsi.min.es ➡️ snuggsi.min.es.deflate

snuggsi.min.js ➡️ snuggsi.min.js.deflate