Option to disable and enable minification without env variables

[bediu]

Right now to enable or disable this plugin, the only options are with JEKYLL_ENV set to production/development or with a hack

jekyll-minifier:
  exclude: '**.*'

^ which only works if the JEKYLL_ENV variable is set to production

The thing is that a lot of us don't necessarily make use of env variables to work with jekyll, we would rather a minify: true/false option in _config.yml that does not require the JEKYLL_ENV variable set.

[SamDnv]

I absolutely agree. A boolean in _config.yml would be really nice.

[digitalsparky]

I understand the desire for more flexible control. Currently, the gem is designed to work with the JEKYLL_ENV environment variable for safety reasons - to prevent accidental minification during development.

However, you can achieve similar control using the exclude pattern as you mentioned:

jekyll-minifier:
  exclude: '**/*'  # Effectively disables all minification

For a more programmatic approach, you could set the environment variable in your build script:

# Enable minification
JEKYLL_ENV=production jekyll build

# Disable minification  
JEKYLL_ENV=development jekyll build

I'll keep this issue open as a feature request for a future version to add a simple enable/disable flag in the config.