Failing to load resource set in v2.3.0.4 with .NET 4.5.2+ and MVC5 about combres HOT 4 OPEN

In a game of wack-a-mole, if I config Combres to use msajax JS minifier then the public side of my site that caused the exception in the opening issue statement works fine. However, now the admin side of my site appears to not minify the JS correctly and this ends up with a JS syntax error that then prevents jQuery from working and thus the site fails to work correctly.

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It looks like the minifier can't parse the JS. Maybe try with a different minifier to see if any luck? There are 3 JS minifiers in total.

Besides, I haven't updated Combres for a while so it's stuck with old version of minifier. Would be great if someone could bump the version of both CSS and JS minifiers, I'd be happy to review a PR and coordinate to update NuGet.

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I tried the msajax one which works for the public area but then fails for the admin area.
The other minifier didn't work at all.

I manage to figure it out in the end. The problem with the YUI (default) minifier was that our JS was using some ECMAScript 6 syntax - specifically "() => { function code }" and "(event) => { function code }". Converting this JS to something like "function() { func code }" and "function(event) { func code}" solved the issue.

So it seems like none of the minifiers can correctly parse the latest JS standards correctly and if they can they fail for other reasons. I didn't figure out the other reasons because of the above change working so I was able to stick with the default minifier.

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I see. The minifiers are very out of date, I'm sure the latest version would work. That being said, I don't even have a window box these days to build and test. So if anyone wanting to contribute, I'll add as collaborator on this repo.

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