~/ equivalent in javascript

Question

Any smart way of doing a \"root\" based path referencing in JavaScript, just the way we have ~/ in ASP.NET?

Answer 1

Solution for ASP.NET MVC applications

This works when using IIS and also IIS Express in VS.

Put this snippet before all scripts load, in order to have the root url variable "approot".

at your service in the scripts:

 --> other scripts go here or somewhere later in the page.

Then use it in your script or page script. Example:

var sound_root_path = approot + "sound/";
var img_root_path = approot + "img/";

the approot variable will be something either:

"/YourWebsiteName/" <-- IIS

or just:

"/" <-- IIS Express