Coffee inside a bundle not compiling

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Coffee inside a bundle not compiling

Closed this issue 11 years ago · 5 comments

I'm trying to add a .coffee to a bundle on my MVC 4 project and it seems that the processor is not working in that case... (I can see the uncompiled .coffee script)

bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/my-site").Include(
    "~/Scripts/core/my-site.js",
    "~/Scripts/coffee/Ads.coffee"));

The only answer I found was to disable optimization or load the coffee directly.
Is there any workaround?

Answer 1 · 2013-07-23T15:30:31.000Z

You'll want to use something like https://www.nuget.org/packages/BundleTransformer.CoffeeScript

Answer 2 · 2013-07-23T15:41:07.000Z

I'm not sure if this is the right channel but I wonder... Why would I choose LessCoffe over BundleTransformer? Maybe I'm missing the point here.

Answer 3 · 2013-07-23T16:07:48.000Z

By all means go ahead and use BundleTransformer - it seems more actively developed than LessCoffee and has a lot more features!

LessCoffee was started a few years ago, before ASP.NET Bundling came out and still suits my needs. It also uses the NodeJS as it's JavaScript engine which may be seen as an advantage from a compatibility point of view (LessJS and CofeeScript are built and tested against NodeJS).

Answer 4 · 2013-07-23T17:03:12.000Z

I'm testing now... it seems that BundleTransformer is not wraping the coffee on a function like it supposed to do... I'm not sure if I really like it... :(

Answer 5 · 2013-11-01T10:23:05.000Z

I'm having to use Bundle Transformer together with LessCoffee, because BT's HTTP handler for LESS is not working properly, it will only update the CSS output to the browser on App_Start. LessCoffee's HTTP handler works properly in comparison. I had been using dotless' HTTP handler for LESS previously, but it's still stuck back on LESS 1.3.1. LessCoffee is always running the latest LESS version, which is great :)