What is @section scripts and what it is used for

Question

I have downloaded a chat example from the Microsoft website. I have been following several tutorials but I have never seen the @section script{} before I have done scripts with

Answer 1

I'd just like to add another form of answer here, because it took me a combo of reading all three current answers and some experimenting before I understood it.

I copied some ajax code for a modal popup that was enclosed in @section scripts { } and put it in a view. It worked fine, but I took away the section bit, because it was encapsulated in }

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How I normally include a one-off script on a view:

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By doing this, the script is rendered inside the html of the view itself and the popup stopped working. This is because the script accesses elements outside of that view - it needs site-wide access so to be able to stop using @section scripts I would have to be put in the layout file.

But I only really want this script rendered when this view is being used. I don't want to put it in the _layout file and have it loading on every single page.

Lucky me! At the bottom of a default _layout file there's a line (I normally remove, to be honest):

@RenderSection("scripts", required: false)

So by enclosing my