ASP.NET 5 Projects - NuGet-NPM-Gulp-Bower-Jspm-Aurelia-Part2
This post is part two of a series. For part one see here
In part 1 of this series we created a shiny new ASP.NET 5 project, and I introduced some fundamentals.
For reasons discussed in part 1, let's now go ahead with our first task, which is to ditch Bower in favour of JSPM as our javascript package manager.
Imagining a DotNetNuke Project Type for Visual Studio
When developing DotNetNuke extensions, we typically use one of the existing Visual Studio Project Type's, for example - an ASP.NET Web Application project.
Even when using a Project Template such as Christoc's, the project template is still based upon one of the standard Visual Studio project types - usually an ASP.NET Web Application project.
However these Project Types do not "gel" well with DotNetNuke development in a number of areas, the main ones being:
So.. what if there was a new Project Type, one that was purpose built for DotNetNuke development? What would that look like?
DnnPackager Getting Started
In this post, I am going to show you how to get up and running with DnnPackager for your DotNetNuke module / extension development.
I am using VS2015 Community Edition, but this should work equally well with previous versions.