VS for Mac Product Manager Rajen Kishna replied: 'Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. That means 'desktop app' development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows. Bower is a popular package management system for managing static content used by client-side web applications. Visual Studio provides rich support for Bower, including templates and package management tools.

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But intellisense in bower.json and package.json is not working. In package.json, intellisense for package name is still not working but for release version it is working. To say I have to type the name of package and there is no intellisense while typing the name of package, though for release version inteliisense do suggest the latest. Now we have two Visual Studio versions (Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code) that can directly install on the Mac (macOS), refer to your description, it looks like you installed the Visual Studio for Mac, it is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and.NET. Editing JSON with Visual Studio Code. That's why VS Code already knows about the schema of some well known JSON files such as package.json, bower.json and tsconfig.json. Mapping in the JSON. In the following example, the JSON file specifies that its contents follow the CoffeeLint schema. Figure 8 shows dependencies from bower.json in Solution Explorer, indicating how Bower is fully integrated into your Web projects and Visual Studio. Figure 8 Bower Dependencies in Solution Explorer.

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