Everyone Welcome again to another session of MindzGroupTech

We are going to start on our topic AngularJS with ASP.Net MVC

but before we start building our application on AngularJS and ASP.Net MVC

We have to see what all prerequisites are there

which we need to have for this session we are going to use Visual Studio 2015 in

the session but if you have Visual Studio 2013 that is

also fine you can use that

along with Visual Studio we will be using bower

to install and manage our dependencies the libraries like AngularJS and Bootstrap

and jQuery whatever javascript frameworks or libraries

are required we will be using bower to install them

in Visual Studio we may require a few extensions to Visual Studio

the most popular and common one which I generally use

during my web development or application development are

power tools for Visual Studio and web essentials for Visual Studio

I will be showing you all those prerequisites one by one

I have already written a blog posts related to those dependencies

you can go ahead and read that blog post I will be sharing this link in the description

of this video if you are interested you can go through this

blog post here i am talking about Web Essentials and

Productivity Power Tools as extension to Visual Studio

and along with that nodejs which is required to install bower

and Bower as a package manager for our project so let's see what is bower

bower is a library of packages and tools and components which are essential for web application

development it can be used to install dependencies in

a project whether it is a Visual Studio project or a

simple static web application to install bower you would require NodeJS

you can install NodeJS from this site Once you have downloaded and installed NodeJS

Let's go your favourite terminal window I am using PowerShell

to check whether NodeJS is properly installed we have to go

and enter this command and it tells me the version of npm installed

npm is a node package manager which installs required libraries and components which are

helpful in your development now i will tell you how to install bower

to install bower we have to use npm install globally bower

i have already installed bower so i am not going to install it again

but i will show you to check if bower is installed or not

you just enter bower and press enter if this kind of output is coming over there

that means bower is already installed

if you want to check the version of bower type this command and it will tell you which

version of bower you have installed on my machine it is 1.8.0

once you have bower installed you can utilise the power of bower

to install dependencies just like Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap

all those kind of libraries you can install for a given project

so let's create a simple directory i will navigate to d:

change to this directory now in this directory we are going to install

for example bootstrap so we have to type bower install bootstrap

click enter and it is going to download the required packages

from internet and going to put all those contents in bower_components

folder of this particular directory let's see

we have bower components and under bower components we have bootstrap

now bootstrap requires internally jQuery it has a dependency on jQuery so jQuery is

also installed along with that like this you can go and manager your dependencies

when we will be starting our application in Visual Studio

we will be using bower similar to this and importing out dependencies into the project

so let's start with our next video where we be building ASP.Net application with

minimal required dependencies to build an AngularJS application

thanks for watching have a nice day