Coding is believed to be the most imperative aspect associated with building a web solution or service. The more readable the code is, the better it can be worked upon by multiple developers who haven’t been familiar with the project right from scratch. Especially if you’re coding using popular web technologies like CSS, Javascript etc. Special emphasis must be laid on making the code readable and easy-to-understand.

Minification is one such technique which plays a vital role in allowing the developer to remove all the unnecessary characters such as new line characters, space characters, block delimiters, comments etc. from the source code without touching the basic functionality. One of the greatest things about minification is that it involved removal of characters which simply improve the code readability but aren’t necessary for actual execution of the respective code snippet. Read more…