How it works...

Every newly installed package will be placed in the lib folder inside the wwwroot folder. This root folder exposes all the files accessed by HTTP requests. It contains all the static files of the application:

In the wwwroot folder, each dependency has its own folder and in this folder, each has its own .bower.json file. This JSON file describes all the information relevant to the client-side framework.

Opening the .bower.json file located in the lodash folder, we can see a JSON object that contains the name, the main files, version, license, and dependencies, if the package has any:

Global information about Bower packages ...

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