In the full .NET Framework and previous versions of MVC, there was an integrated bundling and minification system built in to the platform, which worked dynamically at runtime. This changed for ASP.NET Core, and there are new tools to perform this work.
The default option now is the BuildBundlerMinifier NuGet package. However, you can use other tools, including the task runners, Gulp and Grunt, if you prefer to. There are also package managers such as Bower and npm, which are similar to NuGet but are for frontend libraries. For example, NuGet no longer delivers jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap, and they use Bower instead by default.
Most of these tools are written in JavaScript, and they run on Node.js. The package manager ...
