Chapter 8. Creating Bootstrap 4 ASP.NET MVC Sites Using Visual Studio Code

During their Build 2015 conference, Microsoft unveiled a new lightweight code editor for writing web and mobile apps called Visual Studio Code. This was a major step for Microsoft, since it marked the first time they offered developers a cross-platform code editor that works on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

With the significant redesign of ASP.NET, which made it an open source and cross-platform framework, developers are now able to create ASP.NET websites on Windows, Linux, and OS X. Visual Studio Code makes this a little bit easier.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• What is Visual Studio Code?

• Installing Visual Studio Code

• Scaffolding an empty ASP.NET project using Yeoman

• Adding the Bootstrap 4 files using Bower

• Compiling the Bootstrap Sass files using Gulp

• Creating a layout file that references the Bootstrap files