Introducing Closure Tools. Google have released the pure-JavaScript library, apparently used for Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. It comes with a powerful JavaScript optimiser tool with linting built in and an accompanying Firebug extension to ensure the obfuscated code it produces can still be debugged. There’s also a template system which precompiles down to JavaScript and can also be called from Java.
Recent articles
- Hacking the WiFi-enabled color screen GitHub Universe conference badge - 28th October 2025
- Video: Building a tool to copy-paste share terminal sessions using Claude Code for web - 23rd October 2025
- Dane Stuckey (OpenAI CISO) on prompt injection risks for ChatGPT Atlas - 22nd October 2025