How to switch to non-minified JavaScript for debugging

Although you should always serve minified JavaScript, temporarily running Confluence with non-minified JavaScript can be useful for debugging.

There are a few parameters that can be passed to AMPS plugin's configuration:

• compressResources – this parameter enables minification of all resources if set to true, default value is true.
• compressJs – this parameter enables minification of only JS files if set to true, default value is true.
• compressCss – this parameter enables minification of only CSS files if set to true, default value is true.

In your pom.xml file, you can create a compressJs property that defaults to true and then override it with command line. For example:

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<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-confluence-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${amps.version}</version>
            <extensions>true</extensions>
            <configuration>
                <compressJs>${compressJs}</compressJs>
            </configuration>
        ...
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
<properties>
    <compressJs>true</compressJs>
</properties>             

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atlas-package -DcompressJs=false

When you finish debugging, you can simply omit compressJs parameter.