对于.NET Core，Visual Studio会发布忽略Views文件夹中的.js文件

Question

Here's the steps:

1. Create a simple project using ASP.NET Core Web Application template
2. Publish it without modifying anything, to a folder

If Views folder is not in the published output, it's because your version of .NET Core compiles views by default. Simply add this to your .csproj :

<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.0</TargetFramework>
    <MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>false</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>
  </PropertyGroup>

And publish again.

1. Now add a Home.js file to Views/Default folder
2. Publish again to a folder
3. As you can see, Home.cshtml is published to the output folder, but Home.js is not.

What's wrong here? This makes our deployment engine inefficient and we need to manually keep .js files in sync.

Answer 1

Conventions are followed for a reason. It promotes good app design. Having static files littered all over you project is not good app design . Still, you are correct that ASP.NET Core is configurable and can be made to do whatever you want to do with it, good or bad.

You've actually got two issues here: 1) files in the Views directory are not included in the publish and 2) the Views directory is not served . Even if you are successful including the static files in the publish, it's a pyrrhic victory, as you won't actually be able to utilize those files in your web pages.

There's no way that I'm aware of to cause an entire directory to be copied to output via the UI - only individual files. However, by editing your project file, you can add something like:

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="Views\**\*.js" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" />
</ItemGroup>

That then just leaves you with the issue of actually serving these files, which becomes more problematic, as you cannot just serve some files, but only entire directories. That means potentially exposing anything in the Views directory. Still, if you insist:

app.UseStaticFiles(); // For the wwwroot folder

app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions
{
    FileProvider = new PhysicalFileProvider(
        Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "Views")),
    RequestPath = "/Views"
});