VS2015NodeScript

Demonstrates how integrated node, gulp, npm and bower are with a DNX/.Net45/ASPNet5 project in Visual Studio 2015.

1. Start Visual Studio 2015
2. File=>New Project - ctrl+shift+n
3. Select Visual C#/Windows/ASP.Net Web Application
4. OK
5. In the ASP.Net 5 Preview Templates group, select Web
6. Point out bower.json and package.json (bower/npm respectively)
7. Open the Dependencies node and show the Bower/NPM dependencies
8. Drop to a command prompt
9. CD to the project directory
10. Issue dnu publish
11. Point out the npm, bower, gulp steps
12. Go back to Visual Studio
13. Open Task Runner Explorer
14. Show how gulp tasks can be bound to different Visual Studio events. Right click on a task and choose the binding
15. Rebuild - ctrl+shift+b - to see the task being run

Bonus points

Website can be run with dnx . web

Build 2015:

Scott Hunter: You may ask why are we bring bower into visual studio, when we have nuget already Scott Hanselman: Because the whole world uses it