You've seen that Node.js and npm are getting more and more important, even for those of us using ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core, because of its rich wealth of packages. Some of the tools that we've talked about in this chapter rely on it. Because you can now invoke Node.js from ASP.NET Core, you can benefit from its many available packages and thriving community. Even if you are not much of a JavaScript person, I truly advise you to try to get into it.
Make sure you use TypeScript for any medium-to-large projects—anything that is bigger than a single JavaScript file—because it has lots of advantages and can help you be more productive, much faster.
In this chapter, we covered some of the client-side technologies for which Visual Studio offers first-class support. We did not go into great detail, as this is a huge topic and one that seems to be changing very fast, but I left some clues for you, dear reader, to explore and find out more...
