Update 3:
@Meligy btw, Gulp made it in
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) August 20, 2014
Update 2:
Scott Hanselman announced it as well
grunt and bower support coming to Visual Studio! @shanselman at #OSCON
— Simon St.Laurent (@simonstl) July 22, 2014
It also looks like Grunt and Bower are not as far as ASP.NET vNext is, they’re coming quite soon!
@ryanlanciaux @searls @simonstl @shanselman In a few weeks
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
Update 1:
Turns out the original bit about supporting Grunt is not breaking news (video). The video is definitely worth watching. It suggests Visual Studio will have special tooling written just for Angular.JS for example, and increase Bootstrap tooling as well.
So, I saw a nice tweet from Mads Kristense (creator of Web Essentials and one of the team working on Visual Studio tooling):
It was about Visual Studio tooling for Node’s packages.json file.
Video demo: I'm working on a small new extension for Visual Studio http://t.co/BSIQOR8QoV #json #npm
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
Side Note
If you are interested in the particular plugin in the previous video:
@thaiphanVEVO https://t.co/siYzdUZjqF
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
Grunt
So, I was like:
You know what I'd really love for #ASPNetvNext? Built-in bundling using #nodejs #npm packages via #edgejs in process
— Meligy, Mohamed (@Meligy) July 22, 2014
But then guess what? I got this reply!
@Meligy vNext is not going to have runtime bundling. VS will support Grunt and it will do the bundling
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
YAY
Gulp
I retweeted the tweet, and a smart colleague of mine asked:
@joshuamck Yep
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
The answer was that it’s coming, just after Grunt, as in:
@joshuamck but Grunt first. Gulp provider might be added through Web Essentials to begin with. It's a matter of time
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) July 22, 2014
So, yeah, as my friend and colleague Joshua McKinney said:
@mkristensen win!
— Joshua McKinney (@joshuamck) July 22, 2014
Then later, as shown in Update 3 of this post:
@Meligy btw, Gulp made it in
— Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) August 20, 2014
Thanks a lot, Mads and Microsoft.
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