NET world we also have NuGet and with previous ASP.NET versions, we could use NuGet as well to add dependencies to some client-side dependencies since NuGet would just place the content into our project correctly. Bower previously filled this by making it easy to just publish client-side dependencies without that much of a process. So if you are building something like that, you might already know how to solve this then, and you can expand your existing build process to simply also include Bootstrap and jQuery there.īut there are still many web applications out there that are not that heavy on the client-side, where the application still runs mainly on the server and the server serves static views as a result. This is mostly due to the fact that web applications are continuously moving further into the client-side, requiring complex client-side build systems and many dependencies. Unfortunately, there is no clear path forward.

As a result, the built-in ASP.NET Core templates are slowly being edited to move away from it too. So although you can still use it right now, Bootstrap has also announced to drop support for it.

psst! While Bower is maintained, we recommend yarn and webpack for new front-end projects! As others already mentioned, the package manager Bower, that was usually used for dependencies like this in application that do not rely on heavy client-side scripting, is on the way out and actively recommending to move to other solutions:

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