Web Essentials is an extendsion for Visual Studio with a lot of new features for web developers. These are useful features that make your life easier to become a developer. In this post, I'll show you how to install Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2017

From Visual Studio->Tools->Extensions and Updates->Visual Studio Marketplace->Search Web Essentials

install web essentials for visual studio

Download Web Essentials, then close your Visual Studio to begin installation

install web essentials for visual studio

Open your project->select javascript or css files you want to minify->Bundler and Minifier

minify javascipt in visual studio

You can find output files in the bundleconfig.json file

[
  {
    "outputFileName": "app/controllers/companyController.min.js",
    "inputFiles": [
      "app/controllers/companyController.js"
    ]
  }
]