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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Compiling LESS files to CSS files with Grunt


In this recipe, we will learn how to compile LESS files to CSS files with a task runner named Grunt.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will assume that you've already installed Visual Studio 2015 Community and that the installer automatically installed Node.js and npm.

After that, we will have to install all the modules we need to execute all the tasks we want to run.

How to do it...

We can use Grunt in two ways:

Without using Visual Studio, through the command line, using Command Prompt, Node.js, npm, and installing and using all the modules you need to execute all the tasks we want to run.

Installing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and the Visual Studio extensions that allow us to run these tasks in the Visual Studio user interface.

In this recipe, we will use Grunt in the second of these two ways, using Visual Studio to compile LESS files to CSS files:

  1. To install Grunt, let's open package.json, or if we begin from an empty project, just add a package...