How to bundle JavaScript and CSS in Visual Studio?

Question

What is the officially blessed way to minify and bundle js/css in Visual Studio?

Up until last year, Bundler and Minifier was the Microsoft promoted way to go, but it's been abandoned and has some significant issues to boot.

So what is the currently supported way to bundle and minify JavaScript and CSS in Visual Studio 2019?

Answer 1

The Bundler and Minifier extension integrates with the CommandTaskRunner extension (which is still an active project) and can convert the bundleconfig.json files into Node/npm/Gulp tasks which do the same thing.