ASP.NET Core – Easy Transition of Bower to NPM
UPDATE (Oct 16, 2018): I now rely on Libman for my front end management. I use its 3 different providers to grab the libraries off of cdnjs, unpkg (supposed to include all npm) and filesystem for local files. See post: Using Libman Providers to Coral Front End Libraries
I love me some Bower, even with the shadow looming over it that it’s time is done. Recently, though, it started to do something weird with just restoring/replacing packages that really began to cause problems with my project (and make for some seriously messy 99* commits).
I can do simple task running, etc but still very much a noob to packaging.
Here was my easy solution for removing Bower and switching over to NPM (and accessing those packages through Views).…