jquery-validation missing dist folder

Question

I am trying to add jquery-validation to a project in visual studio 2015. When I add \"jquery-validation\" to bower.json I see that the jquery-validation folder is added to wwwro

Answer 1

npm 2 generates several nested folders which causes paths on Windows to bug. If that is the issue then you should update to npm 3 where they fixed it.

npm i -g npm

Answer 2

I had a similar issue and was able to fix it by installing grunt globally then running npm install in the jquery-validation folder:

1. Open node js command prompt and run npm install -g grunt
2. In any command prompt (I used developer command prompt from VS) navigate to jquery-validation folder and run npm install

Afterwards, the jquery-validation\dist folder should show up with the jquery.validate.js file.