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"And suddenly you spent two hours of your life and downloaded several GB of tools. All to build a 20kb library, for a language that doesn't even need compiling. How do I build this library 2 years from now? 5 years?"

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But the alternative the author suggests is to use UglifyJS - which you also need "node, homebrew and gigabytes of tools" for.

Author addressed this by saying that you can also just replace it with "cat" and it will all still work

Or just 20 seconds copypasting on one of the numerous free web services like uglifyjs.net

This is not under any realistic or sane conditions a solution.

In particular, worrying about not being able to reproduce something and then proposing to use a web app for it seems... counterproductive.

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