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Optimizing your web applications and using bundling and minification

As you saw in Chapter 4, Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1, we have chosen the community-proven Bower as a client-side package manager. We have left the bower.json file untouched, which means that we have restored the four default packages and added some references within the ASP.NET Core 2.0 Layout Page to use them:

In today's world of modern web application development, it is best practice to separate client-side JavaScript code and CSS style sheets into multiple files during development. But, having so many files may lead to performance and bandwidth problems ...

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