It's by Rich Harris, and thus shares many of the libraries that we already use, making it a much lighter weight option. It also claims to be faster than UglifyJS.
The downsides are:
not as battle-tested
not as configurable
Side note:Cherow has plans for a minifier. We'll keep an eye on that, too.
https://github.com/Rich-Harris/butternut
It's by Rich Harris, and thus shares many of the libraries that we already use, making it a much lighter weight option. It also claims to be faster than UglifyJS.
The downsides are:
Side note: Cherow has plans for a minifier. We'll keep an eye on that, too.