Concatenate and minify JavaScript on the fly OR at build time - ASP.NET MVC

Question

As an extension to this question here Linking JavaScript Libraries in User Controls I was after some examples of how people are concatenating and minifying JavaScript on the

Answer 1

Here's what I've used for concatenating, compressing and caching CSS and JS files: http://gist.github.com/130913

It just requires Yahoo.Yui.Compressor.dll in the bin directory. It doesn't compress at compile time, but the files are cached with a file dependency, so they are only loaded once, until they're changed.

Then I just add this code in the :

and this just before the :

It's designed to work with multiple files all in the same path but could easily be upgraded to support different paths.