I struck out to see if I could make use of the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization Framework (version 1.1.2) in my self hosted OWIN Nancy application.
The only real resource I could find on the topic was the page How to use System.Web.Optimization Bundling with Nancy in the Nancy wiki on GitHub. Which looked good at first sight untill I looked a little deeper. This page is not only wildly out of date but didn't even get me close to a working solution.
The System.Web.Optimization project unfortunately has a large dependency on System.Web. Which for all practicle purposes makes it unusable when using Microsoft.Owin.Hosting.
While might still be possible to get it working without IIS by replacing the BundleHandler, providing a HttpContext and emulating a virtual directory for the app domain. Which would look something like the this...
var domain = Thread.GetDomain();
domain.SetData(".appDomain", "");
domain.SetData(".appVPath", "/");
domain.SetData(".appPath", "/");
domain.SetData(".appId", "");I think I'll just wait for some official OWIN support and see how Cassette goes in the meantime.
