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yui/yuicompressor

YUI Compressor observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/yui/yuicompressor · homepage · Java · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 6480
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1813
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2990 stars · 653 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

YUI Compressor is a Java-based command-line tool that minifies JavaScript and CSS files, removing comments and whitespace and safely obfuscating local variables. It is also available as a Node.js package, though it still requires Java under the hood.

Use cases

  • minify javascript files for production
  • compress css files
  • reduce asset file size for faster page loads
  • obfuscate local variable names in js
  • batch minify assets in a build pipeline

When to choose

  • you need a battle-tested legacy minifier for older build setups
  • you want a single tool that handles both JS and CSS minification
  • your environment already runs Java

When to avoid

  • starting a modern project - terser, esbuild, or cssnano are faster and actively developed
  • you need ES6+ syntax support, which YUI Compressor does not fully handle
  • you want a pure Node.js solution without a Java dependency

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

build-tool cli web-development frontend developer-tools jvm cli cross-platform minification javascript css java legacy nodejs

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Member repositories

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yui/yuicompressormain23

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