How to install font-awesome in Visual Studio 2017 using ASP.NET Core v2

Question

I am building a webpage using ASP.NET Core v2 and would like to use font-awesome.

First let me say that I have tried several things. like installing Bower from NPM, installing font-awesome from NPM, installing font-awesome from Bower packages in VS but nothing seem to work.

can someone please provide the correct way to install font-awesome, (preferred without using a lot of console commands or manual copying of files.)

This is what my depedencises currently looks like

Answer 1

I would recommend using LibMan for this (Short documentation how to use it).

I wrote it manually, bet you could add it through "Add -> Client-Side Library". Here is mine libman.json

{
  "version": "1.0",
  "defaultProvider": "cdnjs",
    "libraries": [
        {
            "library": "[email protected]",
            "destination": "wwwroot/lib/font-awesome",
            "files": [
                "css/font-awesome.min.css",
                "fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot",
                "fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg",
                "fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf",
                "fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff",
                "fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2",
                "fonts/FontAwesome.otf"
            ]
        }
    ]
}