Hi,
Do you guys know an application that compresses scripts, images (maybe in the WebP format), adds a sitemap, robots.txt and so on (maybe with integrated FTP upload) before (or after) uploading a website? Wordpress has plugins for that but it would be nice to have something that works with Pinegrow (or any HTML website). My Google search wasn’t that helpful…
Well, depends.
On your operating system, or if using free or paid, or online services, doing it yourself manually with apps or using a build system to automate it.
there, thats a few options.
if on a Mac, the pretty shiny, commercial GO TO App would probably but
which is pretty awesome and probably silly cheap if you use it a lot.
Id love to have it, but on a budget, so Im looking at the
automated build tools
route at the moment, which is scary command line madness.
I just started a topic on it this week, to get some feedback and advice.
I started with looking into Node.js installing (to check out @ehigiepaul 's new Pinegrow Plugin If Im honest)
And then thought I might just go the whole hog and have a go at setting up an automated build/optimisation/compression sort of affair while I was at it, blinking at the scary command line console.
hence looking into
which does NONE of the stuff you asked for! 
it just er, Looks after stuff ie, manages all your web resources, goes off, collects them, maintains them, ie, it will go and get Bootstrap and install it in your project, if your building a bootstrap site etc etc, go get jquery… etc.
it is also included in
…er now this includes Bowman (if im right) AND NPM - yet another package manager to do the same sort of (node and javascript) package managing stuff (it automates a lot of things)
and Yeoman ALSO contains/can be set up with
Grunt
or gulp
These last two are build tools or task runners — which are the actual things that FINALLY
…do the stuff you requested.
They can also be run on thier own…without yeoman, bower etc.
But of course… you have to learn about these things (and the command line) and then set them up.
Or just use codekit, …and tic some lovely little Tick boxes
optimise site tick
convert images Tick…
yes… maybe I should save up for it.
But im going ot explore those last combos, …for the hell of it, and here are some rather dandy fast, easy tutorials to explain them.
Automated resources and package management (not what you asked for, but along the automated route)
and
now this contains the first and contains the task runners that can be set up to do what. you want.
yes, all rather overwhelming isnt it?
And there are older apps.
on my older mac, I used to use this for CSS and javascript
which uses the YUI …compressor I think…
Then there are online toosl that use the YUI or JSUglify tools
such as
https://alternativeto.net/software/css-compressor-and-minifier/
there are a couple of apps in there too.
There is a recent (2019) list of css html js tools here
and… I could go on.
for a change.
but,
That is some ideas, lets see what better ideas others come up with>
Ive basically just been checking out the topics lately so thats my input.
If using WordPress… then there’s probably a gazillion plugins,
this one does on the fly optimisation and can use the WebP format too.
Im totally out of my depth in the WP pool and am actually screaming rather loudly as I drift off away from the shallows of the Automated command line tools too, but there,
Got the ball rolling for you.
let us know what you end up going with.
Hey,
Thank you so much for that really extensive answer! Sorry for the late reaction, I’m very busy these days. I will try some things out and reply later with my experiences. 