'Restore Packages' option is missing on right click in Visual Studio 2015

Question

I am trying to start with Angular 2 and Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3) eq. with this tutorial: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/cookbook/visual-studio-2015.html i need to "restore packages" on right click on 'packages.json'-file, but this option is missing in menu.

Any hints?

Answer 1

If you like, you can restore your packages using the npm command. This is same as doing the restore package. Hope it helps.

1. open up the command prompt
2. cd into the folder where you have your angular project
3. run this command : npm install