Visual Studio 2015 Tooling

Support for Modern Front-end Web Development Practices

ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2015 also now support modern front-end web development practices, meaning they include integration with JavaScript package manager (think NuGet for JavaScript) like Node Package Manager (NPM) and Bower, the package manager for client frameworks like Bootstrap and Angular. The new tooling also includes support for automated build and compilations steps, like Grunt or Gulp. Grunt or Gulp are popular task runners that, similar to a build system for server code, do the same build optimization steps for client-side JavaScript, like minifying your JavaScript by removing whitespaces and carriage returns. For developers building Docker images, ...

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