Online Tool to Unminify HTML, CSS, and JS
There are a few reasons to minify code, the major one being web performance. Browsers don’t need whitespace and comments to process your files. But, it’s not fun to work obfuscated code and I find myself often using jsbeautifier to uncompress source code. Today, I decided to implement this tool myself show how you can unminify and reformat HTML, CSS, and JS code with a JavaScript function. Since js-beautify is open source and supports JavaScript, this was an easy task.
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Today, I am going to go over a simple example of saving content from a web page to your server. Imagine a textarea with a save button, which grabs the text from the user input and sends it to your server. There PHP grabs the data and writes it into a unique file. Our php script will respond to the Ajax request with the file name in a link so that the end user can retrieve it directly through another web request.
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JavaScript is mostly used on the client-side and in the browser, enabling all kinds of dynamic interactions on the page. When Brendan Eich created the language for Netscape in 1995, there were already server side implementations but node.js made it really popular. Node is a cross-platform runtime environment that is event driven and non-blocking and uses the Google V8 JavaScript engine to execute code. So, if you already know JS, you can now code on the server. There are a ton of use cases that this enables but today I want to focus on a simple concept of moving your client-side JavaScript code to Node.JS so that you can hide or protect your JS functions from being visible to end users.
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