diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f0194d54..41e7b79f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ### 0.7.1
   - Show sticky level on hover (title property) of pin icon.
+  - Minor reduction in frontend script size by removing duplicated inline pug runtime functions.
   - Small frontend and backend refactors
   - Update dependencies
 
diff --git a/gulp/res/js/filters.js b/gulp/res/js/filters.js
index 3a10935d..08d9ca0b 100644
--- a/gulp/res/js/filters.js
+++ b/gulp/res/js/filters.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* globals setLocalStorage filters isCatalog captchaController threadWatcher */
+/* globals setLocalStorage pugfilters isCatalog captchaController threadWatcher */
 const getFiltersFromLocalStorage = () => {
 	const savedFilters = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('filters1'));
 	return savedFilters.reduce((acc, filter) => {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ let { single, fid, fname, ftrip, fsub, fmsg, fnamer, ftripr, fsubr, fmsgr } = ge
 let filtersTable;
 const updateFiltersTable = () => {
 	[...filtersTable.children].slice(3).forEach(row => row.remove());
-	filtersTable.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', filters({filterArr: JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('filters1'))}));
+	filtersTable.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', pugfilters({filterArr: JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('filters1'))}));
 	const closeButtons = filtersTable.querySelectorAll('.close');
 	for (let elem of closeButtons) {
 		let { type: closeType, data: closeData } = elem.dataset;
diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 4b3b2f49..466b76d5 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ async function custompages() {
 async function scripts() {
 	const { themes, codeThemes } = require(__dirname+'/lib/misc/themes.js');
 	try {
+
+		// compile some locals/variables needed from configs in fe scripts
 		const locals = `const themes = ['${themes.join('\', \'')}'];
 const codeThemes = ['${codeThemes.join('\', \'')}'];
 const captchaType = '${config.get.captchaOptions.type}';
@@ -437,21 +439,28 @@ const settings = ${JSON.stringify(config.get.frontendScriptDefault)};
 const extraLocals = ${JSON.stringify({ meta: config.get.meta, reverseImageLinksURL: config.get.reverseImageLinksURL })};
 `;
 		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/locals.js', locals);
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/post.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/post.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'post' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/modal.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/modal.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'modal' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/uploaditem.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/uploaditem.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'uploaditem' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/pugfilters.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/filters.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'filters' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/captchaformsection.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/captchaformsection.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'captchaformsection' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/watchedthread.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/watchedthread.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'watchedthread' }));
-		fs.writeFileSync('gulp/res/js/threadwatcher.js', pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/threadwatcher.pug`, { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: 'threadwatcher' }));
+
+		//compile some pug client side functions
+		['modal', 'post', 'uploaditem', 'pugfilters', 'captchaformsection', 'watchedthread', 'threadwatcher']
+			.forEach(templateName => {
+				const compilationOptions = { compileDebug: false, debug: false, name: templateName };
+				const compiledClient = pug.compileFileClient(`${paths.pug.src}/includes/${templateName}.pug`, compilationOptions);
+				fs.writeFileSync(`gulp/res/js/${templateName}.js`, compiledClient);
+			});
+
+		//symlink socket.io file
 		fs.symlinkSync(__dirname+'/node_modules/socket.io/client-dist/socket.io.min.js', __dirname+'/gulp/res/js/socket.io.js', 'file');
+
 	} catch (e) {
+
+		//ignore EEXIST, probably the socket.io
 		if (e.code !== 'EEXIST') {
 			console.log(e);
 		}
+
 	}
 	gulp.src([
-			//put scripts in order for dependencies
+		//put scripts in order for dependencies
 		`${paths.scripts.src}/locals.js`,
 		`${paths.scripts.src}/localstorage.js`,
 		`${paths.scripts.src}/modal.js`,
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index dfb25341..9989e85c 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
         "path": "^0.12.7",
         "pm2": "^5.2.0",
         "pug": "^3.0.2",
+        "pug-runtime": "^3.0.1",
         "redlock": "^4.2.0",
         "sanitize-html": "^2.7.0",
         "saslprep": "^1.0.3",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d982b1b3..820bd4e2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     "path": "^0.12.7",
     "pm2": "^5.2.0",
     "pug": "^3.0.2",
+    "pug-runtime": "^3.0.1",
     "redlock": "^4.2.0",
     "sanitize-html": "^2.7.0",
     "saslprep": "^1.0.3",
diff --git a/views/includes/filters.pug b/views/includes/pugfilters.pug
similarity index 100%
rename from views/includes/filters.pug
rename to views/includes/pugfilters.pug