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Hi,
I am trying to learn / play with VS2015 and ASP.NET5
I created a new ASP.NET5 Web project (non empty, so it kind of works).

On that page https://github.com/RyanCavanaugh/jsx-intro#reusable-components[^] I am told to install react by some arcane commmand "npm install -g bower".... "bower install react jquery"

First my DOS command line doesn't recognize "npm", further how do I make sure it installs in the right directory?
Isn't there some kind of visual studio command extension?

Posted 21-Sep-15 1:35am

Super Lloyd

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It's talking about the Nuget Package Manager. You can either use the command line from the Developer Command Prompt, or it's just easier to use the Package Manager Console inside Visual Studio (Tools menu).

The command line your probably looking for is "Install-Package Bower".

Posted 21-Sep-15 1:54am

Dave Kreskowiak

Updated 21-Sep-15 1:56am

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Super Lloyd 21-Sep-15 20:08pm

mmm... I installed Web Essentials 2015 (just in case), then started an ASP.NET vNext web project, started the NuGet package manager console and selected that project (just to be really really sure!)

then I typed npm install -g http-server
And I got

npm : The term 'npm' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify 
that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ npm install -g http-server
+ ~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (npm:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I must be missing something...

Dave Kreskowiak 21-Sep-15 20:23pm

That's not what I said to do. Go back and read it again.

Super Lloyd 21-Sep-15 20:58pm

mmm... well Install-Package Bower did seem to do something successfully... (let's assume for a moment that Install-Package does the same work as npm... though I doubt it) but what about bower install react jquery?!
I tried (UNsuccesfully) Install-Package react ...

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Super Lloyd · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-21T15:16:00

Solution 2

Apparently...
If I expand the "dependencies" folder I can see bower. If I right click on it it can open "bower.json"
If I add this line "react": "0.13.3" in it, I can see a little loading message... then react.js "magically" appeared in my wwwroot\lib folder!
I guess there are no command line call in VS2015, just edit the .json files!...

Posted 21-Sep-15 15:16pm

Super Lloyd

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Dave Kreskowiak 21-Sep-15 23:21pm

Yep! Bower is essentially Nuget for client-side.
Next step, installing Git. You can find a good process for installing and using Bower in Visual Studio here[^].

Super Lloyd 22-Sep-15 0:29am

Interesting link, thanks! :)