Asset packaging is a hot topic these days. Andrew Davey brings the fun to .NET with Cassette, an asset bundler for .NET web apps. Much like Jammit or Sprockets for Ruby apps, Cassette concatenates, minifies, and manages dependencies between scripts:
@{
Bundles.Reference("Scripts/app/page.js");
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Web App</title>
@Bundles.RenderScripts()
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
… which yields individual scripts in debug mode:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Web App</title>
<script src="/Scripts/lib/jquery.js?a4babad4b" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/lib/jquery-ui.js?53dd39212" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/app/tools.js?4d03ae0b" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/app/widgets.js?cf319fe0b" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/app/page.js?485f05e21" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
… and concatenated, minified assets in production mode:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Web App</title>
<script src="/_assets/scripts/Scripts/lib_4bad47afb" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/_assets/scripts/Scripts/app_b7c29fecc" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
Cassette even supports Less and CoffeeScript. Please, someone fork this and bless the community with the pure goodness that is Sass.
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