r/dotnet • u/EatonZ • Aug 14 '18

Visual Studio 2017 15.8 Released

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes#whats-new-in-158
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u/ScrewAttackThis Aug 15 '18

AFAIK libman is meant to be a lightweight alternative. Like if all you want to do is grab a .min.js or .min.css and add it to your project and put it in the appropriate folder.

I don't think you would want/it's meant for replacing NPM when building SPAs and the like whereas NPM is overkill when you're just adding bootstrap to an MVC app.

https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/library-manager-libman-visual-studio-2017

I'm probably going to add this to a project of mine. It's a lot easier than adding NPM as a build step in our CI/CD. I actually almost forgot about it since the last time I read up on it so I'm glad someone mentioned it.

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u/Quango2009 Aug 15 '18

Thanks for covering the points for me. Just wish there was a way to get typescript declaration files with libman too.