Using npm with an MVC project

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.