Minification of resources

[amitness]

The CSS and JS of the site can be minified to speed up loading time. We'll need to research how it is done in Django.

[prashishh]

We can also open a PR to Wazimap. :)

[barbier]

Why not use node with gulp for it?

[cliftonmcintosh]

@barbier

The CSS and JavaScript are in an upstream Django project, Wazimap. Wazimap (or Django) may have a way to minify resources. If so, I think we should use that. If Wazimap does not have the ability to minify, we might consider a PR to Wazimap to add that ability.

I would suggest that this should be configurable by environment because minified JS is harder to debug than un-minified JS. In fact, we found the cause of a bug in Wazimap because we were able to debug using un-minified JS. I think we should have un-minified JS in non-production environments.

[amitness]

Possible solution: Django Compressor suggested on the Python Users Group Nepal.