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:

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

We can see in the Output...