In Visual Studio 2013, how do I minify Javascript and CSS in the post-build step

Question

In Visual Studio 2013, how do I minify Javascript and CSS in the post-build step? I\'d like to have every single css and js file compress into a .min.js, or .min.css in the sam

Answer 1

With Microsoft Ajax Minifier you could create powershell script to create minified versions of all files in given folder and add it to Post-build events.

Example for js files(it will be similar for css):

Get-ChildItem *.js -Exclude *.min.js |
    Foreach-Object{
    $file = [io.fileinfo]$_.Name
    ajaxmin $file.Name -out "$($file.Name).min$($file.Extension)"
}

Check also a page with full list of command line switches e.g.: -map creates source map file.