How to use npm with ASP.NET Core

Question

I\'m using npm to manage the jQuery, Bootstrap, Font Awesome and similar client libraries I need for my ASP.NET Core application.

The approach that worked for me sta

Answer 1

Install the Bundler and Minifier into Visual Studio Extensions

Then you create a bundleconfig.json and enter the following like :

// Configure bundling and minification for the project.
// More info at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=808241
[
 {
    "outputFileName": "wwwroot/js/jquery.min.js",
    "inputFiles": [
      "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js"
    ],
    // Optionally specify minification options
    "minify": {
      "enabled": true,
      "renameLocals": false
    },
    // Optionally generate .map file
    "sourceMap": false
  }
]

So the bundler and minifier (gulp based) has access to the source files (which should be excluded from Visual Studio and also excluded from GIT) and puts them into the wwwroot as specified

only side effect every time you save it will run this (but you can set it to run it manually)