With ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft provided the ability to use Bower as a client-side package manager. Bower is a package manager for web frameworks and libraries that is already very popular in the web development community.
You can read more about Bower and search the packages it provides by visiting http://bower.io/.
Microsoft's decision to allow the use of Bower and package managers other than NuGet for client-side dependencies is because it already has such a rich ecosystem.
To add the Bootstrap 4 source files to your project, you need to follow these steps:
bower.json
and click on Add, as shown here:bower.json
file to open it and add Bootstrap 4 to the dependencies array. The code for the file should look similar to the following:{ "name": "asp.net", "private": true, "dependencies": { "bootstrap": "v4.0.0-alpha.3" } }
bower.json
file.bower.json
file, Visual Studio will automatically download the dependencies into the wwwroot/lib
folder of your project. In the case of Bootstrap 4 it also depends on jQuery and Tether. You'll notice that jQuery and Tether has also been downloaded as part of the Bootstrap dependency.3.143.237.136