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Javascript compression for Monorail

January 27, 2009, 4:56 pm

Last year, Hammett posted a blog entry on combining Javascript files into a single file using Monorail.  I was looking to enhance the code so that it would minify Javascript and CSS files on the fly, so I took his original code and enhanced it.  Alex Henderson was also looking for the same functionality, so he contributed to the patch as well.  You can download it here:  http://support.castleproject.org/projects/MR/issues/view/MR-ISSUE-457

The new component uses a .NET port of the Yahoo! UI Library Compressor that is available on Codeplex.  The component worked great, but they did not have a strongly signed version of the library release.  I made a request and they quickly turned out a release that same day, which was awesome response time.

You can now have all of your Javascript and CSS combined for you on the fly by using the component:

   1: #blockcomponent(BuildJS with "key=layout")
   2:     $jsBuilder.Add("Content/css/main.css")
   3:     $jsBuilder.Add("Content/css/someOther.css")
   4:     $jsBuilder.Add("Content/js/prototype.js")
   5:     $jsBuilder.Add("Content/js/someOther.js")
   6: #end
Category: .NET, Castle

3 Comments

  1. John:

    This is great. When I saw Hammett’s post last year I had the exact same thought, now you’ve saved me the job. Thanks ;-)

    February 10, 2009, 1:32 pm

  2. theusualsuspect.com » Simple JS and CSS compression for MonoRail:

    [...] came across a post about JavaScript compression for MonoRail. These guys have written a great patch for Hammett’s CombineJS [...]

    February 11, 2009, 6:40 pm

  3. Willie:

    Shoot, this is exactly what I am trying to do…with the ASP.NET MVC framework. Hopefully I can cobble together some code from each to get the job done.

    April 23, 2009, 3:38 pm