Backtrack limit exhausted in regular expression

Created on 5 November 2024, about 1 month ago

Problem/Motivation

We currently have a client that has pages that contain lots of data that needs to be pushed to JavaScript. When the minifyhtml module is enabled, this leads to an error when minifying the script tags containing the DrupalSettings.
Backtrack limit exhausted in regular expression "/\s*<script(\b[^>]*?>[\s\S]*?<\/script>)\s*/i" (code: 2).

Steps to reproduce

Enable the module
Create a page with a large DrupalSettings object.
Observe the Backtrack limit exhausted in regular expression error.

Proposed resolution

We can do the following things:

  1. Prevent minifying large string in general. This would not need any configuration.
  2. Allow settings to disable parts of the minification.

Since the module now requires very little configuration, I guess option 1 would be the easiest solution, and still allows minifying of smaller script tags.

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Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

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🇳🇱Netherlands seanB Netherlands

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