I'm a total novice to npm, or really any package managers.
I'm working on a ASP MVC project within Visual Studio, and I have npm and bower installed globally on my computer.
I'm trying to use the bootstrap-material-design package in my project.
I manually created a package.json file using Visual Studio.
I opened a CLI at the project root and ran npm install -S bootstrap-material-design. That created a folder node_modules at project root, with bootstrap-material-design inside. I've included these folders in my project. It also changed my package.json file. Now, it looks like this:
{
"version": "1.0.0",
"name": "asp.net",
"private": true,
"devDependencies": {},
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap-material-design": "^0.5.10"
}
}
It appears to me that the package is "included" in my project. But my question is: how do I use it? All the npm guides I've been reading seem to suggest I can just start using the package in my javascript code and Visual Studio will somehow know that I'm trying to use to the package. But bootstrap-material-design has CSS files and JS files it needs included on every page. Where do those folders get included? In _Layout.cshtml? I'm pretty stuck.
Thank you!