How to connect JS to ASP.NET MVC views?

Question

JavaScript

Colleagues!
Give a recommendation on how best to include third-party JS libraries in ASP.NET view code.
The situation is this: there are a bunch of views, where it is written by hand, for example:

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now I bring the code up to date and update the dependent components (in this case, it can be seen that the old jquery is used).
As I understand it, you can put all JS connections into a separate PartialView, and then connect it everywhere. Maybe there are some other options?

Answer 1

And why not write everything you need in _Layout?

Answer 2

Only it is better not to connect scripts separately. but use bundles , if, of course, you use asp.net mvc 4 and higher.
And so it is necessary to clearly understand why specific scripts are needed and where they may be needed. If everywhere - then _Layout, if not, then it’s better not to overload _Layout sometimes, but to put it in a separate script section