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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

You're reading from   Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0 Build modern web apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0, MVC, and EF Core 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476638
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michel Bruchet Michel Bruchet
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Jason De Oliveira Jason De Oliveira
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Preface 1. What is ASP.NET Core 2.0? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Environment 3. Creating a Continuous Integration Pipeline in VSTS 4. Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1 5. Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 2 6. Creating MVC Applications 7. Creating Web API Applications 8. Accessing Data using Entity Framework Core 2 9. Securing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications 10. Hosting and Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications 11. Managing and Supervising ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Optimizing your web applications and using bundling and minification


As you saw in Chapter 4, Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1, we have chosen the community-proven Bower as a client-side package manager. We have left the bower.json file untouched, which means that we have restored the four default packages and added some references within the ASP.NET Core 2.0 Layout Page to use them:

In today's world of modern web application development, it is best practice to separate client-side JavaScript code and CSS style sheets into multiple files during development. But, having so many files may lead to performance and bandwidth problems during runtime in production environments.

That is why during the build process, everything must be optimized before generating the final release packages, which means that JavaScript and CSS files must be bundled and minified. TypeScript and CoffeeScript files must be transcompiled into JavaScript.

Bundling and minification are two techniques you can use...

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