ghost-minify-output

ghost middleware to minify compiled handlebars output and to disable beautify

Instructions

minification setup

• Open a console in ghost root dir [/ghost] and type:

npm install --save html-minifier

• Add the file settings.json to your root dir.
• Add the file minify.js to ghost/core/server/middleware/
• Open the file index.js located atghost/core/server/middleware/
• Add thefollowing 2 lines of code to the list of required modules: (refer to the example/index.js file included in this repo if you dont understand)

settings = require('../../../settings.json'),
minifyOutput = require('./minify'),

Find the following lines in of code in the same file:

adminApp.set('view engine', 'hbs');
adminApp.engine('hbs', adminHbs.express3({}));

• Below the above mentioned lines add the following 4 lines of code

if (settings.minifyOutput === true) {
	//minify html output
	blogApp.use(minifyOutput);
}

You can now enable/disable minification in the /ghost/settings.json file.

• true = on
• false = off

beautify setup

(refer to the example/theme-handler.js file included in this repo if you dont understand)

• Open the file theme-handler.js located atghost/core/server/middleware/
• Find the following lines of code:

activateTheme: function activateTheme(blogApp, activeTheme) {
        var hbsOptions,

• Below the above mentioned lines add the following 2 lines of code

settings = require('../../../settings.json'),
beautify = settings.beautify,

• Find the following lines of code:

hbsOptions = {
            partialsDir: [config.paths.helperTemplates],
            onCompile: function onCompile(exhbs, source) {
                return exhbs.handlebars.compile(source, {preventIndent: true});
            }
        };

• Replace the above mentioned lines with the following lines of code

hbsOptions = {
            partialsDir: [config.paths.helperTemplates],
            onCompile: function onCompile(exhbs, source) {
                return exhbs.handlebars.compile(source, {preventIndent: true});
            },
			beautify

        };

You can now enable/disable beautify in the /ghost/settings.json file.

• true = on
• false = off

Done.