[Documentation] Difference between html-minifier-terser and original html-minifier about html-minifier-terser HOT 5 CLOSED

It was neither obvious to me that this is the maintained solution, nor why using terser would be better.
You assume a lot of knowledge here that most developers will not have.

I specifically seached the issues and after reading this, will replace my current usage of html-minifier with this package.

I'd strongly suggest documenting this visibly in the README.

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Hi @yrtimiD,

the difference is that html-minifier-terser uses terser instead of uglify-js to support ES6 and newer.

See v4.0.0...master and kangax/html-minifier#1040 to understand the motivation behind this.

It has to do with the fact that the maintainer of html-minifier is also the maintainer of ugligy-js and he was not interested to move to terser which works (unlike uglify-es).

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Closing as obsolete as in my opinion the fork with terser is the current maintained solution and supports modern JavaScript. As terser was forked from uglify-es and the API is (mostly) the same there is not much to document.

See https://github.com/terser/terser#why-choose-terser

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Will be nice to have this explanation in the README.md

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I think the addition in the package name is sufficient.
It is a direct replacement.

PRs for the README.md file are very welcome.

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