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I am getting a bit confused here.

I have an MVC 5 project, I want to use the npm for managing my javascript packages.

I installed npm from nuget and here i am stuck, I cant find the commandline console window or anything like that.

All the info i see online is about node projects.

Can someone direct me to a relevant tutorial.

Using visual studio 2013, MVC 5.

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Well regardless of the project, if you want to use npm on Windows, this is what you need:

  1. Download and install Node (you might need a restart).
  2. Make sure that node is installed by opening a command prompt and running node -v (should print a version number).
  3. Run npm -v and see if it's installed (should be).

Now in the context of an ASP.NET MVC project. The newer versions of Visual Studio (I believe 2015) support npm - you can just open the package.json and add dependencies (it will download them behind the scenes). In case you're using an old version, you can simply open a command prompt, navigate to your project and use npm install from there.

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Are you sure about this? Even in 2017 it seems to be a manual process or rely upon third party extensions and configuration
@IronSean I have to admit, I use VSCode for node projects, however I just opened VS2017 and although a bunch of things have changed, I still see plenty of integrations (Add New Item -> npm Configuration File), or right-click on a package.json file and "restore packages", or open the package.json and right click on individual packages/dependencies and update/uninstall them or go to their homepage etc. Also autocomplete packages when you type them (along with their version). So ya I think this still applies. Do you have anything specific in mind?
How is this meant to work when publishing an ASP.NET MVC 5? In my project I am referencing the node_modules folder in my BundleConfig. When I publish the files the contents of the node_modules doesn't come with it because it's not part of my solution.
@CiaranGallagher Typically you would have a build setup that bundles your app in a JS output file (webpack for example) and you deploy that.

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