JavaScript Processors

Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizing compiler. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls. It is used in many of Google's JavaScript apps, including Gmail, Google Web Search, Google Maps, and Google Docs.

The YUI Compressor is a JavaScript compressor which, in addition to removing comments and white-spaces, obfuscates local variables using the smallest possible variable name. This obfuscation is safe, even when using constructs such as 'eval' or 'with' (although the compression is not optimal is those cases) Compared to jsmin, the average savings is around 20%.

Graal JavaScript engine

Graal JavaScript ScriptEngine

Javascript/CSS bundling and compressing tool for java web apps. By using jawr resources are automatically bundled together and optionally minified and gzipped. Jawr provides tag libraries to reference a generated bundle either by id or by using the name of any of its members.

JSLint takes a JavaScript source and scans it. If it finds a problem, it returns a message describing the problem and an approximate location within the source. The problem is not necessarily a syntax error, although it often is. JSLint looks at some style conventions as well as structural problems. It does not prove that your program is correct. It just provides another set of eyes to help spot problems.

Closure Compiler Rhino

Zipper is a full-featured asset packaging plugin for Maven that provides JavaScript lint lint checking, Closure Compiler and YUI Compressor support, CSS and JavaScript concatenation, and up-front gzipping.