4. Some Extra Information

You may or may not find some of this useful. We certainly hope that you make some use of it.

4.1. What Does Quick.JS Use to Compile?

Quick.JS uses Google’s Closure Compiler to compile and minify. After compiling, Closure keeps some newline tags in the JS code, which takes up ~10 bytes of space. Since we believe that every byte really does matter, we run it through the minifier here to remove those newlines.

As for our CSS, we use a standard CSS minifier here. Since our CSS code is tiny, we don’t use Sass or LESS. It would be massively overkill.

4.2. Building Your Own Copy of This Documentation

Fun fact: This documentation is directly linked to Quick.JS’ repository. Whenever changes are commited, these docs are rebuilt. Due to this, they should always be the most up-to-date and reliable docs out there for Quick.JS.

However, if you, for whatever reason, want to build your own copy of the documentation to host locally, please feel free to. The only prerequisite is that you have Sphinx installed. If you have Python installed, it’s as easy as running pip install Sphinx in a terminal or command prompt. Open the docs/ folder of the GitHub repository on your local machine in a terminal or command prompt (OSX, Windows, or Linux all work fine in this case). From there, just run make html to generate HTML versions of the documentation, or run make latex to make a LaTeX version.