Introduction
We generally write a Httphandler to remove white space from a CSS and JS file or we use minifies versions of CSS and JS files. Like in jQuery they give us a min version of a JS file.
Now we don't need to write any external utility to remove white space because now we have Chirpy, which is a Visual Studio Add-in for handling CSS, JS, DotLess and T4 files.
Now let me try to explain how to use this add in.
Step 1
First go to http://nuget.org/packages/ChirpyVSI or http://chirpy.codeplex.com/ and download and install it.
Step 2
See in the following image, there is much white space:
Now we will try to remove it using Chirpy.
Step 3:
Add a new config file inside the content folder. The file name would be Bundle.chirp.config and the content will be:
<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rootxmlns="urn:ChirpyConfig"xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ChirpyConfig http://www.weirdlover.com/chirpy/chirp.xsd">
<FileGroupName="Site.css">
<FilePath="Site.less" />
</FileGroup>
</root>
When you create the bundle file and filegroup and file path all are correct and then it will automatically generate it. It will look like:
Now you can see as in the following image that all white space has been removed from the CSS:
Note: You can use the same bundle file for JS also.
Happy Coding.