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John Craft
John Craft

Reputation: 131

Use Grunt on ASP.NET MVC 5 Project in Visual Studio 2015

I have an existing ASP.NET MVC 5 project in Visual Studio 2013 that I would like to migrate to Visual Studio 2015 so I can take advantage of VS 2015's support for Grunt. The project opens fine in VS 2015 and I can add a gruntfile.js to the project, but the task runner doesn't work. I assume there is additional configuration needed to make VS 2015 aware that my project is ready for Grunt, but I am not sure where that configuration resides. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 4241

Answers (2)

Yannick Smits
Yannick Smits

Reputation: 875

You have to create a package.json and add grunt in the devDependencies so NPM can download it for you. See: http://www.shellmonger.com/?m=201502

Upvotes: 3

hutchonoid
hutchonoid

Reputation: 33305

  • Got to View menu, Other Windows, Task Runner Explorer.

  • Press the Refresh button in the Task Runner Explorer and make sure your tasks appear.

  • Right-click the desired task and select Run.

I got started with Stephen Walther's article here:

ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 1, Configuring Grunt, Uglify, and AngularJS

Upvotes: 4

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