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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

Managing frontend dependencies with Bower


Bower is a frontend package manager. It is used in the web development world to install and uninstall JavaScript and CSS frameworks, including their fonts. The official documentation can be found here: http://bower.io/.

In this recipe, we will learn how to manage frontend dependencies with Bower.

Getting ready

We will assume that we have already installed Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which is a free version of Visual Studio for Windows.

How to do it...

  1. To install a frontend dependency with Bower in ASP.NET Core project using Visual Studio, we just have to right-click the project name in Solution Explorer and select Manage Bower Package in the contextual menu:

Using the Manage Browser Packages window, we can install, uninstall, or update packages such as Bootstrap, jQuery, AngularJS, and a lot more. The Manage Bower Packages dialog box is now open:

  1. Let's install the LoDash library with Bower by clicking the Install button.

We can see in the Output...