No opinions? 😸

Indeed I have. This need to be changed. The UglifyJsPlugin should only use uglify-js.

There are four options I have in mind:

• An option module.loader: { } which adds properties to the loader context.
• A plugin LoaderContextPlugin(context) which adds properties to the loader context.
• A plugin LoaderMinimizePlugin() or similar, which only sets minimize on the loader context.
• A plugin LoaderOptionsPlugin(regExp, query/obj) which adds options a specific loaders via query.

The debug option would also be affected by this.

The debug option would also be affected by this.

Makes sense.

The LoaderOptionsPlugin(regExp, query/obj) sounds reasonable. But I think most of the time you'll want to minify just all modules. So maybe there should be a LoaderMinimizePlugin() which uses internally the LoaderOptionsPlugin()?

Wow, this is quite unexpected!

Lately, I was thinking about this again. This is still misleading for newcomers. Wouldn't it be better to remove all the minification stuff from the loaders?

I think the best solution would be to have different plugins for all the various web-compatible output files, like MinifyJS, MinifyCSS, MinifyHTML, MinifyImages that are applied on all files that are about to be emitted. However, the minification should happen before the hash calculation.

I think the best solution would be to have different plugins for all the various web-compatible output files, like MinifyJS, MinifyCSS, MinifyHTML, MinifyImages that are applied on all files that are about to be emitted. However, the minification should happen before the hash calculation.

That doesn't work for inlined files... i. e. CSS or HTML inlined into JS.

Btw. This was changed in webpack. UglifyJs now only minimized js. A LoaderOptionsPlugin allows to switch on minimizing for loaders.

I wholeheartedly agree with the issue, so it's great if this has been solved, but I haven't seen it for the stable (1.x.x) version. Has this only been solved for the beta version ?
And by the way the fact that activating UglyfyJsPlugin currently puts all loaders in minify mode should be documented somewhere.

only in the 2.x version. It's a breaking change which cannot be done on 1.x version.