Cannot install underscore using bower in ASP.NET Core project

Question

Someone else asked the same question but didn't include the error and there wasn't any accepted answer, so I will try again.

I am using Visual Studio 2017.

I am following a course on Pluralsight about building a ASP.NET Core Web Application. The instructor wants use to install the underscore package using Bower.

I have tried adding it manually through the bower.json file and through the Manage Bower Packages gui but I am getting the this same error.

PATH=.\\node_modules.bin;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\Web\\External;%PATH%;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\Common7\\IDE\\CommonExtensions\\Microsoft\\TeamFoundation\\Team Explorer\\Git\\cmd;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\Common7\\IDE\\CommonExtensions\\Microsoft\\TeamFoundation\\Team Explorer\\Git\\mingw32\\bin "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\Web\\External\\Bower.cmd" install underscore#1.8.3 --force-latest --save bower underscore#1.8.3 not-cached https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore.git#1.8.3 bower underscore#1.8.3 resolve https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore.git#1.8.3 bower underscore#1.8.3 ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore.git ", exit code of #128

Here is my bower.json file

{
  "name": "asp.net",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "underscore": "~1.8.3"
  }
}

I thought it might be an issue with git so I tried reinstalling but that didn't work.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It looks like the above issue was a bug in Visual Studio 2017. I was able to resolve it by updating to the latest version which is currently 15.3.

After updating, bower worked fine for me.