How to use bower packages in Visual Studio 2017

Question

Face two difficulties with bower package manager in vs2017

1. In Visual Studio 2017, can not find any .bowerrc file under bower.json

Answer 1

I had the same issue.

In the same folder as your bower.json file create the file called .bowerrc. Inside it paste:

{
  "directory": "wwwroot/lib"
}