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Jeff Meatball Yang
Jeff Meatball Yang

Reputation: 39057

Some software for IIS/.NET similar to JAWR (consolidate and minify Javascript)

Is there any software package/library that will produce a consolidated, minified JavaScript file for a production environment, while leaving the original files/references as-is in a development environment (so developers can work independently)?

JAWR does this (and more) for a Java/Groovy environment, but I haven't seen anything like it for the Microsoft .NET/IIS7 stack. Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 332

Answers (2)

Rob Levine
Rob Levine

Reputation: 41328

We use YUICompressor to minify our Javascript (and CSS) and it works well.

However, we've had to write our own HttpHandler to decide whether to minify or not on the fly, depending on a config setting (but it could equally be on whether it was a DEBUG or RELEASE build).

In fact, we cache the file once minified (or not), so we don't have to do the same process on every request.

Upvotes: 1

Mounir Zarkan
Mounir Zarkan

Reputation: 11

If you're looking for a good way to automatically compress and combine css & js files here are some options:

  • Xpedite Not bad: has one big disadantage: you can't combine files (js/css) that are included in usercontrols with the files in your page.

  • Shinkansen, I don't have a lot of experience with it, but I know it has a lot of configuration options.

  • The ClientDependency Framework was originally written for Umbraco. Now there is a package available via NuGet for both WebForms and MVC. It works really well and this is my favorite.

Upvotes: 1

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