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What is LibMan?

How to Acquire and Install

LibMan tooling comes as part of the Web Development workload in Visual Studio 2017.
Download Visual Studio 2017 and choose the "Web Development" workload during installation (or modify an existing instance of Visual Studio 2017).

The LibMan CLI (DotNet tool) can be used separately and can be downloaded from NuGet.

Using LibMan in Visual Studio

• UI elements
  • boxes
• Editing the libman.json (IntelliSense)
  • IntelliSense, etc
• Actions (Install/Restore/Clean)
  • Notifications
  • Error output

Using LibMan from the Command Line

Using LibMan in a CI build

LibMan Manifest (libman.json)

Providers

• What are providers? How to choose?
• CDNJS
• UnPkg
• File System

Error Codes

Other links

• General usage
  • Visual Studio
  • MSBuild support
• libman.json reference
• Providers
  • Cdnjs
  • File system
• Error codes
• Extensibility
• Localization