Changing the theme

To be precise, we're currently using the Bootstrap default theme; the first thing we can do is to change it with something slightly less common all over the world. There's a ton of free and commercial alternatives available; however, it will be wise to stick to the open source world, at least for now; luckily enough, there's a great open source Bootstrap theme collection available as an NPM package that we can easily use.

From Solution Explorer, open the package.json file and add the following highlighted one right below the reference to the bootstrap package:

[...]"bootstrap": "3.3.7","bootswatch": "3.3.7","css": "2.2.1",[...]

As soon as we click on Save, Visual Studio will download the package through NPM into the project's ...

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