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Christian Ahrweiler
Christian Ahrweiler

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Auto-Minify Web Files from a Watched Folder

Editing web files should stay readable.

Shipping them should be smaller.

MinifyWeb connects those two steps with a simple folder workflow: choose a folder, let the app watch it, and automatically minify supported files when they change.

Save your CSS or JavaScript and MinifyWeb creates the minified version for you.

Watch, save, minify

MinifyWeb is useful when you work on small websites, static pages, WordPress plugins, themes, or front-end assets where a full build pipeline would be overkill.

Local Mac workflow

MinifyWeb runs locally on your Mac.

That means your files do not need to be uploaded to an online minifier just to remove whitespace, comments, and extra formatting.

For many small web projects, folder watching is the missing middle ground between manual minifying and a full build system.

MinifyWeb

MinifyWeb is part of Beaver Tools, a collection of small Mac utilities focused on solving one clear problem at a time.

More tools are available at:

https://beavertools.app

MinifyWeb is available on the Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minifyweb/id6781017979

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