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I'm using Grunt hooked up with grunt-contrib-uglify task to minify JavaScript in my app.

Upon minification, it's removing every 'use strict' statement except the very first one, so I'm getting a huge JavaScript file with 'use strict' directive at the top.

The issue is that the global 'use strict' directive makes the browser execute the code of every lib I'm using in the project in the "strict mode" and it's causing errors, since not every 3rd party code is written for strict mode.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

I'm using Grunt hooked up with grunt-contrib-uglify task to minify JavaScript in my app.

Upon minification, it's removing every 'use strict' statement except the very first one, so I'm getting a huge JavaScript file with 'use strict' directive at the top.

The issue is that the global 'use strict' directive makes the browser execute the code of every lib I'm using in the project in the "strict mode" and it's causing errors, since not every 3rd party code is written for strict mode.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

• javascript
• gruntjs
• bundling-and-minification
• uglifyjs

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• It's not easy to solve, as documented in this ment on the UglifyJS2 project page. – Matthew Bakaitis Commented Dec 19, 2013 at 15:48
• @rawry Can you try using next version github./mishoo/UglifyJS2 . Looks like the problem is solved in this new version. – Vishwanath Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 9:37

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If you wrap all your scripts with an IIFE then the grunt-contrib-uglify won't position that statement to the stop and rather it'll leave it inside every IIFE you write.

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // do stuff
})();

Yes, it's more code, but if your gzipping the file it should be a non-issue. Also this will keep any variables you define outside of the global scope, leading to more performant code.

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