Can I avoid re-deploying after changing ascx, aspx, JS, or CSS files for a SharePoint site?

Question

I´m creating an application with SharePoint 2013/Visual Studio 2012. When I modify the aspx or ascx files, I need to deploy the whole application in order to view all changes and it will take almost one minute.

Is it possible to avoid the deployment when I change these ascx/aspx/js/css files?

Answer 1

No, deployment is only way how to propagate changes when using Visual Studio to develop SharePoint farm solutions.

But you can create JS/CSS/HTML pages using SharePoint Designer and when you will be done, import it to Visual Studio - SPD saves changes directly to SharePoint and you will see result imediatly...