Using sections in Editor/Display templates

Question

I want to keep all of my JavaScript code in one section; just before the closing body tag in my master layout page and just wondering the best to go about it, M

Answer 1

This post really helped me so I thought I would post my implementation of the basic idea. I've introduced a helper function that can return script tags for use in the @Html.Resource function.

I also added a simple static class so that I can use typed variables to identify a JS or CSS resource.

public static class ResourceType
{
    public const string Css = "css";
    public const string Js = "js";
}

public static class HtmlExtensions
{
    public static IHtmlString Resource(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, Func template, string Type)
    {
        if (htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Items[Type] != null) ((List>)htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Items[Type]).Add(template);
        else htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Items[Type] = new List>() { template };

        return new HtmlString(String.Empty);
    }

    public static IHtmlString RenderResources(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string Type)
    {
        if (htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Items[Type] != null)
        {
            List> resources = (List>)htmlHelper.ViewContext.HttpContext.Items[Type];

            foreach (var resource in resources)
            {
                if (resource != null) htmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(resource(null));
            }
        }

        return new HtmlString(String.Empty);
    }

    public static Func ScriptTag(this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string url)
    {
        var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(htmlHelper.ViewContext.RequestContext);
        var script = new TagBuilder("script");
        script.Attributes["type"] = "text/javascript";
        script.Attributes["src"] = urlHelper.Content("~/" + url);
        return x => new HtmlString(script.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
    }
}

And in use

@Html.Resource(Html.ScriptTag("Areas/Admin/js/plugins/wysiwyg/jquery.wysiwyg.js"), ResourceType.Js)

Thanks to @Darin Dimitrov who supplied the answer in my question here.