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Dmitriy Khudorozhkov
Dmitriy Khudorozhkov

Reputation: 1623

ASP.NET MVC: versioning static scripts (outside of bundles)

In my ASP.NET app, I have several pages/scripts that I can't bundle - PDF.js viewer page or MediaElement video loader.

But sometimes I do minor amendments to those scripts; I need to version/cache-bust the respective script files, so these are auto-reloaded for users. In PDF.js viewer.html, for example:

<script src="viewer.js?v=1.1"></script>

The gotcha is: how to make ASP.NET/IIS auto-inject the version info into the static HTML files that it serves? Any solutions?

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 225

Answers (1)

adriennetacke
adriennetacke

Reputation: 1746

Do you use any type of task runner?

I use Gulp, and whenever I build, I have a task to replace my version number with something unique to ensure the latest version is always requested.

So in my Index.cshtml:

<script type="text/javascript" src="~/bundle.js?v=$$VERSION" charset="utf-8"></script>

And in my gulpfile.js:

gulp.task('version', function () {
    return gulp.src('index.html')
        .pipe(replace('$$VERSION', Date.now()))
        .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

Upvotes: 1

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