Bundling and minification without ASP.NET MVC

Question

Is it possible to use bundling and minification from Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization without having an MVC project?

I\'m creating an AngularJS site communicating w

Answer 1

To gain file-load speed in your SPA, you need manual time in the setup. The wrong answer is to implement Razor, especially if your whole goal was to stay away from MVC and its friends (Which is a good thing if your goal is an AngularJS SPA). When you implement the Optimization framework mentioned in other answers, you now have to hit the View Engine to build out CSHTML files, which is a noticeable hit to your speed, probably more than what you think you're saving.

So like I said, you'd need developer time to minimize the files. You would have to manually send them to a CDN you own (or need to set up). You can then reference your own CDN with your own packages as set up by your team, and that CDN will be cached by the user's browsers.

Then, when one or more of your SPA's need to point to updated HTML/CSS/JS, you increment the CDN version in that SPA App. Other SPA Apps can even stay the same with an old version (though I recommend trying to stick to latest-version CDN's). And the user's browsers will recognize the new CDN version and pull a new version to cache.