Why Do Nuget Javascript Packages Copy To Scripts Folder

When I install e.g. jQuery from Nuget into my VS C# project, jquery.js ends up in my packages folder. This is good, since I don't want to check this file into my source control, si

Solution 1:

The team have decided to drop support for content files in nuget packages. And they are recommending to use other package managers for client side libraries like npm, bower etc. There is a built in support for them in studio 2015. One of the reasons is that every time some client package was updated on npm repo one of the guys in microsoft team had to fetch it repackage into nuget and publish. Check it out!