title: Is there any benefit to minifying source code that is read only by Node?
body: <p>In a NodeJS application, is there any benefit to using minified source code server-side?</p>
  
  <p>The only benefit I could come up with, is that the smaller JS files would probably be loaded slightly faster from disk. But that seems negligible given that it would only impact startup time.</p>
  
  <p>So, would there be any reason to process our source through uglify or closure compiler before deploying it to our production servers?</p>