Minifying Javascript on Visual Studio 2010 on release mode
- by Arturo Molina
I have a ASP.NET MVC 2 project on Visual Studio 2010. I want to be able to use my plain javascript files in debug mode so I can understand what's going on when debugging, but I want to used a minified/compressed version when using release mode.
I was planning to create some extenders to include the js files in each page, something like:
<%: Html.IncludeJS("/Content/foo.js") %
In that extender method I would determine whether I am on debug or release mode and pick the appropiate JS file. The disadvantage here is that I would end up manually compressing/minifying the JS every time I change something.
Is there an automated way to compress/minify and include the JS file when compiling in release mode?