NPM, Bower and Gulp Kickstart in Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2015Built in support for tools like Grunt, Bower, Gulp and NPM

NPMPackage manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js.package.jsonNode packages: bower, gulp, grunt

BowerBower is a package management system for client-side programming. It depends on Node.js and npm. It works with git and GitHub repositories..bower.json.bowerrc

Gulp vs GruntNode based automated task runnerscompiling sass, linting css, concatenating files, minifying files, auto-generating image sprites and compressing imagesGrunt config file vs Gulp code

Gulp tasksgulpfile.js“gulp-load-plugins“, “gulp-bower“, “gulp-config“, “gulp-concat”, “gulp-uglify“, “gulp-filter“, “gulp-util“, “gulp-useref”, “gulp-minify-css”, “main-bower-files”, “gulp-angular-templatecache”

Task runner explorerExecute Grunt/Gulp tasksBind Grunt/Gulp task to a Visual Studio event(Build and Solution Open).

Demohttps://github.com/axilis/Gulp-tasks.git