In VS15 (2017) the default .bowerrc repoints the default location to wwwroot/lib, and bower package restore is ON.
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ orleans.codegen.cs
# (https://github.com/github/gitignore/pull/1529#issuecomment-104372622)
#bower_components/
+# VS15: by default bower location is moved, bower restore is true
+**/wwwroot/lib/
+
# RIA/Silverlight projects
Generated_Code/
@@ -284,4 +287,4 @@ __pycache__/
*.btp.cs
*.btm.cs
*.odx.cs
-*.xsd.cs
+*.xsd.cs
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