It looks like with Visual Studio 2015 RTM, the bower\_components folder is gone and packages are saving directly to the wwwroot/lib/ folder. This would be verified by the fact that the default gulpfile no longer has a function for copying files from bower\_components to wwwroot. 

However in the default project.json, bower\_components is still in the "exclude" property even though the folder no longer exists. Possibly an oversight?

Does anyone know what is going on with this? I didn't see anything about it in the release notes or the bug fixes and known issues articles. Also, I thought the entire point of the wwwroot folder was to house only white-listed files which will be needed by the actual site. Which, I guess there is no ***harm*** in making library code available here, it actually makes our lives easier as we add new libraries, but throughout the beta period the bower\_components folder was pretty strictly separated. 

<https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-vs.aspx> 

<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3025135>