CDF is a framework for managing dependencies for JavaScript and CSS files in your web application (client files). It allows for each individual component in your web application to declare what CSS and JavaScript files they require instead of relying on a single master page to include all dependencies for all modules.
This hugely simplifies collaborative development since any developer who is working on a component doesn't need to worry about what CSS/JavaScript is being included on the main page. CDF will automagically wire everything up, ensure that your dependencies are ordered correctly, that there are no duplicates and render your CSS and JavaScript html tags properly on to the rendering page.
CDF is flexible. It allows you to make any web component dependent on any CSS or JavaScript file individually. CDF does not require you to pre-define resources at startup (but you certainly can) and doesn't require you to know c# or VB. If you can write markup for Webforms or Razor then you can use CDF.
- MVC support - Any view engine
- Webforms support
- Runtime dependency resolution
- Pre-defined bundling
- Combining, compressing & minifying output
- Support for external/CDN files
- Debug and release mode rendering
- OutputCaching of the combined files
- Persisting the combined composite files for increased performance when applications restart or when the Cache expires
- Versioning the files ... great for ensuring your clients' browser cache is cleared!
- Prioritizing dependencies
- Pre-defined file paths - great for theming!
- Detecting script and styles that are not explicitly registered with CDF and have the output compressed
- Provider Model so you can choose how you would like your JS and CSS files rendered, combined, compressed & minified
- MIME type compression output for things like JSON services, or anything you want
- Control over how composite file URLs are structured if you need a custom format
- Medium trust compatible (Core, MVC and .Less projects)
- Native .Less, TypeScript, SASS & CoffeeScript support
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency-Mvc
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency-Less
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency-TypeScript
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency-Sass
PM> Install-Package ClientDependency-Coffee
Click the link to see the documentation on how to get started and more advanced techniques
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© 2013 by Shannon Deminick
This is free software and is licensed under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)