diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 1351941..77bba4a 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-- [ ] minify js and css when copying over instead of just copying (May just end up using Tree sitter for parsing due to lack of js packages)
+- [ ] minify js and css when copying over instead of just copying
     - CSS
         - https://github.com/wereHamster/haskell-css-syntax
     - JS
+        - Doing our own tokenizer lol
 - [ ] setup fingerprinting in file names for css and js
 - [ ] process source code blocks to syntax highlight them
     - tree sitter https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tree-sitter
diff --git a/src/Utilities/Javascript.hs b/src/Utilities/Javascript.hs
index 845f273..b2027e4 100644
--- a/src/Utilities/Javascript.hs
+++ b/src/Utilities/Javascript.hs
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 module Utilities.Javascript
   ( minify,
+    toTokens,
+    displayToken,
   )
 where
 
@@ -10,13 +12,29 @@ import Control.Applicative (Alternative (many), optional, (<|>))
 import Data.Data (Proxy (Proxy))
 import Data.Maybe (maybeToList)
 import Data.String (IsString (fromString))
+import Data.Void (Void)
 import Logger
-import Text.Megaparsec (MonadParsec (notFollowedBy, try), Stream (tokensToChunk), anySingle, choice)
+import Text.Megaparsec (MonadParsec (notFollowedBy, try), ParseErrorBundle, Stream (tokensToChunk), anySingle, choice, parse)
 import Text.Megaparsec.Char (hspace, newline, string)
 import Utilities.Parsing
 
-minify :: String -> String
-minify = id
+minify :: (Characters s) => [Token s] -> [Token s]
+minify = reduce_identifiers . remove_redundants
+  where
+    -- need to figure out how to add State into this
+    reduce_identifiers = map $ \token -> case token of
+      Identifier name -> Identifier name
+      v -> v
+    -- this could also use state so I can remove redundant newlines
+    remove_redundants = filter $ \token -> case token of
+      WhiteSpace -> False
+      _ -> True
+
+toTokens :: (Characters s) => s -> Either (ParseErrorBundle s Void) [Token s]
+toTokens = parse tokens ""
+
+displayToken :: (ToText s) => Token s -> s
+displayToken _ = error "TODO"
 
 -- yeah I guess I'm making a javascript tokenizer
 -- s is either Text or String