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Bergerova
Bergerova

Reputation: 903

How to minify CSS and JavaScript files in Visual Studio 2015

I am building a web application for mobile using visual studio, and I wanted to know how do I minify all my CSS files into one file, and also all my JavaScript to one minified file.

Upvotes: 30

Views: 48846

Answers (4)

user5161537
user5161537

Reputation:

The below link explains a lot better https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/rickandy/adding-web-optimization-to-a-web-pages-site

http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/performance/bundling-and-minification

Upvotes: 7

Alex from Jitbit
Alex from Jitbit

Reputation: 60952

Both extensions mentioned in other answers seem abandoned, but the good thing, Visual Studio has built-on support for npm and Grunt/Gulp tasks - that can "watch" a file, and minify/compile JS, CSS, SASS and everything else you have in your project.

  1. Drop a package.json into your project root folder, with Grunt or Gulp added there. Visual Studio will "detect" it and install all the npm packages in the background.
  2. Add Gruntfile.js (or Gulpfile if you prefer Gulp) and Visual Studio "task runner" will also detect it automatically.
  3. Edit Gruntfile (or Gulpfile) to minify/compile your files (tons of info can be found online) and optinally add a "watcher" too.
  4. Under "View - Other Windows - Task Runner" configure these tasks to run on project open.

I wrote a detailed blog post with screenshots and everything, since it can be overwhelming for VS/.NET people to get familiar with npm/grunt/gulp/npm-scripts at first, but it's easy, trust me! I've been there myself.

Upvotes: 1

Ozan BAYRAM
Ozan BAYRAM

Reputation: 2901

It's handled in the bundleconfig.json for asp.net mvc core

Here is full article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/client-side/bundling-and-minification?view=aspnetcore-2.1&tabs=visual-studio%2Caspnetcore2x

Upvotes: 1

Dwain Browne
Dwain Browne

Reputation: 1100

You can use the Visual Studio 2015 Bundler & Minifier,extention https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9ec27da7-e24b-4d56-8064-fd7e88ac1c40 this used to be apart of Web Essentials in previous versions of Visual Studio, but was separated, into it's own extension.

Upvotes: 28

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