chore: replace uglifyjs with terser for minifying prod builds #1061
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Description of changes
Replaces the minifier we're using on prod builds from
uglify-js
toterser
.Terser is a more updated replacement for UglifyJS. Webpack 4 switched to using it as the default minifier in Nov 2018 (webpack/webpack#8392). The reasons we'd want to switch:
It is essentially a drop in replacement; we expect no customer-visible changes as a result of this update.
Pull request checklist
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