title: hooking into Google App Engine's deploy
body: <p>The Google App Engine Launcher has a nice little "Deploy" button that will push my changes to prod. However, I'd like to be able to minify/obfuscate my JavaScript before deploying.</p>
  
  <p>I've read about several tools that can do this: <a href="https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/" rel="nofollow">Google Closure Compiler</a>, <a href="https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2" rel="nofollow">Uglify.js</a>, <a href="https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/" rel="nofollow">YUI Compressor</a>. Of course, I could do this manually before deploying, but I'd much rather be able to have this run automatically.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to hook into App Engine's deploy process, and run a minification/obfuscation task on my JavaScript? If not, any suggestions on other approaches?</p>