Call javascript from MVC controller action

Question

Can I call javascript function from MVC controller action (not from view page) and get return value? How?

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I need to make request to server

Answer 1

There are ways you can mimic this by having your controller return a piece of data, which your view can then translate into a JavaScript call.

We do something like this to allow people to use RESTful URLs to share their jquery-rendered workspace view.

In our case we pass a list of components which need to be rendered and use Razor to translate these back into jquery calls.