Minify One File

I just need to minify one file. Does that really mean I have to write a gulp task?

The answer is emphatically “Yes!”

You will minimize another file at some time in the future.

Here is a very basic script where name is included. I am just going to leave this here in case I want to add arguments and make it more generally useful at some point : )

gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp');
var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');

gulp.task('compress', function () {
    return gulp.src('jquery-3.2.0.js')
        .pipe(uglify())
        .pipe(rename('jquery-3.2.0.min.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
});