Is there a javascript/css compressor plugin for visual studio?

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I'm looking for a visual studio plugin with the following functionality:

On building the project or executing the tool, the plugin looks for all *.js and *.css files in your project and compresses/minimizes them into *.min.js and *.min.css files.

Executing the tool on project build would enable you to keep the references to *.min.js in your pages while changes to the *.js files would be instantly written to the *.min.js files.

Is there such thing available? If not what's the closest thing to automize tasks like that?

Extra question: How about auto combining files?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '09 at 19:55

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Check out these two links:

An MS build script for YUI compressor YUI compressor for VS

answered Jun 06 '09 at 19:55

Chris Harris

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That's pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks for the link. – Thomas Stock Jun 06 '09 at 20:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '09 at 20:24

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You probably be better off doing it with NAnt and coding it to run the compression. Automated process is always better than a manual one.

answered Jun 06 '09 at 20:24

epascarello

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 18:39

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Web Essentials is best program for that, I really like it, and it has a lot of other nice features: http://vswebessentials.com/

answered Sep 01 '14 at 18:39

Luca Steeb

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Is there a javascript/css compressor plugin for visual studio?

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