Injecting content into specific sections from a partial view ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor View Engine

Question

I have this section defined in my _Layout.cshtml

@RenderSection(\"Scripts\", false)

I can easily use it from a view:

Answer 1

There is a fundamental flaw in the way we think about web, especially when using MVC. The flaw is that JavaScript is somehow the view's responsibility. A view is a view, JavaScript (behavioral or otherwise) is JavaScript. In Silverlight and WPF's MVVM pattern we we're faced with "view first" or "model first". In MVC we should always try to reason from the model's standpoint and JavaScript is a part of this model in many ways.

I would suggest using the AMD pattern (I myself like RequireJS). Seperate your JavaScript in modules, define your functionality and hook into your html from JavaScript instead of relying on a view to load the JavaScript. This will clean up your code, seperate your concerns and make life easier all in one fell swoop.