JavaScript Libraries not published to Windows Azure

So late last year I was having trouble trying to figure out why a web site I’d been writing wasn’t working once published to Windows Azure.  I can’t remember which library it was (JQuery.UI perhaps), but once published I was getting a lot of broken JS calls (“can’t load library”, etc).

After a call with a friend today, he enlightened me about a problem which has been documented over on Stack Overflow – when using bundling with ASP.net (MVC or WebForms).  A release build (or production publish) publishes minified versions (“release mode”), but if a library doesn’t have a minified version, the script is ignored altogether!

The solution would seem to be to create a second copy of the non-minified script and rename it to .min.js.  Let me know if this works (or doesn’t work) for you..

Original source:  (Stack Overflow) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11980458/bundler-not-including-min-files

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