It’s been two years since my first attempt to integrate RequireJS with ASP.NET MVC. Being my first open-source project it was fun and challenging. Version 2.0, developed and maintained by VeriTech, comes with new features and major improvements especially to the bundling component.

Change log

• new JSON config format compatible with require.js configuration object, the XML format from v1.x is deprecated
• passing values between ASP.NET and JavaScript done via a global filter (RequireOptionFilter), the RequireController is no longer need and has been removed
• breaking changes in RenderRequireJsSetup HTML helper, it takes a single argument of type RequireRendererConfiguration
• auto bundling capabilities
• compressor and config parser refactoring
• export .resx files to JavaScript in i18n format (MsBuild task)
• project website with updated tutorials requirejsnet.veritech.io
• up-to-date documentation wiki
• various bug fixes

Upgrade from v1.x

If you are currently using RequireJS.NET v1.x be aware that v2 introduced breaking changes, please follow the upgrade guide.