Grails resources provides a DSL for declaring static resources in plugins and in apps, and a mapper artefact that allows other plugins to provide processing of static resources to e.g. minify / zip them.
All processing is performed at runtime once, against files in the server filesystem.
Built-in mappers included in the plugin:
- CSS rewriter (two mappers required, happens automatically)
- Bundler (combines multiple css or js files into one)
See docs at http://grails.org/plugin/resources