CODEWITHSUNDEEP
angularjsvisual-studio-2012
JoseDS
JoseDS

Reputation: 163

Adding an AngularJS project to a Visual Studio 2012 solution

I would like to create a Visual Studio 2012 (Premium) solution, initially containing a project for an AngularJS client. Later on, at least one ASP.NET MVC 4 project will be added defining the server the AngularJS client talks to. We would like to keep these things in one solution.

The problem is that I cannot find a fitting project template (installed or online) or a way to manually define such a project. No matter which project template I choose there is always too much cruft being added, as all project templates are based on some programming language / environment irrelevant to the AngularJS project. I would be happy with a blank project template to which only the relevant html, js, css,... files would be added.

One could of course define the ASP.NET MVC 4 project and then add the client parts to some folders in that project, we had already done such things in the past, but things get very cluttered.

Do you know how to naturally define such a web client project in VS 2012 or if VS 2013 does handle this better?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 11536

Answers (2)

JoseDS
JoseDS

Reputation: 163

We came up with the following solution: In Visual Studio, select "Add New Web Site" -> "ASP.NET Empty Web Site". This approach fits the bill since it does not add much to our AngularJS project and hosting the application is also taken care of.

Upvotes: 3

Nishanth Nair
Nishanth Nair

Reputation: 2965

I would suggest create a new ASP.NET Web API project. File - > New Project-> ASP.NET MVC4 Web Application . In the next screen, select "Web API". Since you are doing the client only using HTML,CSS and JS , your server side becomes a bunch of APIs for which you need to create a Web API project only and not a full MVC 4 app. Even Web API project also comes with some MVC4 files and folders, which you can remove easily.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions