Share constants between C# and Javascript in MVC Razor

Question

I\'d like to use string constants on both sides, in C# on server and in Javascript on client. I encapsulate my constants in C# class

namespace MyModel
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Answer 1

Rather then storing your constant data in a C# class, store it in a static config/constants file.

// Constants.json
{
    "T_URL": "url",
    "T_TEXT": "text"
}

// Constants.cs

// load the json from a file stream into a constants object

// Constants.js

window.Constants = $.getJSON(url);

Simply store it as some file format (json, xml, cvs, whatever) then load it up from both the client & server.

This means your either creating a class in the C# on the fly at runtime using black magic reflection or just have a hashtable / dictionary containing your constants under keys.

jQuery.getJSON, JsonReaderWriterFactor