How to make Microsoft Bundle output JavaScript not HTML script tags

Question

I am building a ASP.NET MVC4 based jQuery plug-in and I would like to use the standard Microsoft Bundler. Now normally when I use the bundler the final usage is this: ``` @Scripts.Render(BundleConfig.jsBundleFile) ``` With a output like this in debug: ``` ``` And a single tag to the minified and combined file in the official release. However, because we are building a jQuery plug-in I want to use the minifier to insert the actual JavaScript from the various files i.e. in DEBUG, when I have `Object1` defined in one file and `Object2` defined in another then I get this: ``` /* Content from file #1 */ var Object1 = function() { /* Un-minified content of Object1 */ }; /* Content from file #2 */ var Object2 = function() { /* Un-minified content of Object2 */ }; ``` and in…

Accepted Answer

You can do what the BundleHandler does: Get a bundle based on the virtual path (same one you would use for `@Script.Render`), generate the response and write the contents.

```
@{
    var context = new BundleContext(this.Context, BundleTable.Bundles, string.Empty);
    var bundle = BundleTable.Bundles.GetBundleFor("~/VIRTUALPATH");
    var response = bundle.GenerateBundleResponse(context);
    var content = response.Content;

this.WriteLiteral(content);
}
```

Or in short:

```
@Html.Raw(BundleTable.Bundles.GetBundleFor("~/VIRTUALPATH").GenerateBundleResponse(new BundleContext(this.Context, BundleTable.Bundles, string.Empty)).Content)
```

EDIT: To get unminified content in debug, we can do what Scripts does: Get the bundle again, but instead of generating the response, we iterate its files and write their contents (delimited).

```
@{
    var context = new BundleContext(this.Context, BundleTable.Bundles, string.Empty);
    var bundle = BundleTable.Bundles.GetBundleFor("~/VIRTUALPATH");

if (BundleTable.EnableOptimizations)
    {
        var response = bundle.GenerateBundleResponse(context);
        var content = response.Content;

this.WriteLiteral(content);
    }
    else
    {
        var files = bundle.EnumerateFiles(context);

foreach (var file in files)
        {
            var stream = file.VirtualFile.Open();

using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                this.Output.Write("{0}{1}", reader.ReadToEnd(), bundle.ConcatenationToken);
            }
        }
    }
}
```

How to make Microsoft Bundle output JavaScript not HTML script tags

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