Wrapping Asp.net MVC with Nodejs for Development

   With Asp.net 5 around the corner I get all the nodejs support I could need, but convincing a team to get on board with early technology is difficult. So what I'm playing around with nodejs projects and what I'm doing with them is wrapping them around Asp.net MVC 5 projects. Having all my front-end taken care of outside the Asp.net MVC project and then severing the dependencies up in a single file. I think this is the best approach and will meet future solutions without breaking things. I'm still using Asp.net MVC's bundle feature but for personal JavaScript files I create. Nuget doesn't have that feature out of the box for Asp.net MVC applications so for now this helps adapt to the solution with taking advantage with npm packages.

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      I'm also looking at is using Typescript + Typelite. I'm not completely sold on typescript but I would highly recommend using typelite if you do. Synchronizing fronted model with back-end model is extremely important to me. Combined both approach I think it  might help my work load a lot, doesn't simpler but allow me to focus on using packages and treating my own javascript files a lot like third party packages. The best place to look out for all these idea is my catalog-demo on github.

I think it would be interesting to use node as a stand alone site and have a separate Asp.net site (something like a WebAPI service). Taking a complete project in that direction would be great if you had you're team seperated from front-end to middle tier. 

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