Server side CSS and JS manager

[liamgold (Liam Goldfinch)]

I agree with @sebastiaan — I think the natural progression would be to move towards front-end bundling.

Personally, I would recommend using Vite. It allows you to bundle and minify your JavaScript and CSS easily, but at build time rather than at runtime.

You can still reference the generated bundles in your Razor views wherever it makes the most sense to include them.

This will also help you with:

Should Umbraco default to precompiled Razor views with Hot Reload?

I actually hate the precompile view because it would break a number of 3rd party stuff which use views for a start. Secondly I hate it in Kentico because the the processes and steps are just that much more for even small changes and updates. It is a thing that with streamlining companies especially for me is just the amount of time waisting compiling, managing and deploying even small changes these days is simply to costly. We need to quickly and easily make view changes and deploy them and b…