Combine multiple JavaScript files into one JS file [closed]

Question

I am using jquery in my web application and I need to load more jquery script files into a single page.

Google suggested I combine all the jquery script files into a single file.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

On linux you can use simple shell script https://github.com/dfsq/compressJS.sh to combine multiple javascript files into the single one. It makes use of the Closure Compiler online service so the resulting script is also effectively compressed.

$ ./compressJS.sh some-script.js another-sctipt.js onemore.js

Answer 2

Try the google closure compiler:

http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/gettingstarted_ui.html

Answer 3

Just combine the text files and then use something like the YUI Compressor.

Files can be easily combined using the command cat *.js > main.js and main.js can then be run through the YUI compressor using java -jar yuicompressor-x.y.z.jar -o main.min.js main.js.

Update Aug 2014

I've now migrated to using Gulp for javascript concatenation and compression as with various plugins and some minimal configuration you can do things like set up dependencies, compile coffeescript etc as well as compressing your JS.