Project build halts on: “Build delayed until Bower/npm packages finish restoring.”

Question

In VS 2017, I created a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using the Angular template.

The project however does not run, it gets stuck on:

Build delayed un         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and I followed the below steps to get around it.

Disable Package restore:

1. Go to Tools -> Options -> Project and Solutions -> Web Package Management -> Package Restore.
2. Set False to 'Restore on Project Open' and 'Restore on Save'

After disabling, I opened a terminal and manually installed all the packages. I used Yarn to install the packages and faced no problems.

Visual Studio often halts during project builds because of timeouts. To get around that, I used the command yarn --network-timeout 60000.

Hope this helps!