Yes there are additional steps involved for working with the Closure compiler, but in return, you get extremely robust dead-code elimination for your own code and third party code alike.
This turns out to be invaluable in production because most projects only realistically use a handful of functions from utility libraries that tend to be 10s of KBs in size.
This turns out to be invaluable in production because most projects only realistically use a handful of functions from utility libraries that tend to be 10s of KBs in size.