
Why Your Obsession with Code Minification is Overrated
Remember when everyone thought adding !important to every CSS rule was the way to go? Or when we all genuinely believed that document.write() was peak JavaScript? Well, friends, I think we’ve collectively found our next sacred cow to worship: code minification. And I’m here to gently nudge it off the pedestal. Don’t get me wrong—minification has its place in the performance optimization toolkit. But somewhere between “totally ignore it” and “treat it like the holy grail of web performance,” we’ve collectively decided that minification deserves our obsessive attention....



