Frontend package management in ASP.NET Core

The Microsoft docs apparently recommend libman https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/client-side/libman/?view=aspnetcore-6.0
and then using external tools for bundling and minification, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/client-side/bundling-and-minification?view=aspnetcore-6.0
But they also have docs on using Grunt and NPM.
This seems like too much work tbh, and would also require configuration duplication.
What do you use usually? With all these separate tools I'd also need to maintain build scripts. Do you use Nuke for that on your job? Maybe send an example?

That's funny, both Libman and Grunt fell out of favor

Libman got largely replaced by NPM, while Grunt was replaced by Gulp, and layer by bundlers

Personally, I use Gulp for build tasks, both for CSS and JS

Sure thanks for the advice

Gulp's last update was in 2019

You're sure it's a good idea to still use it? The world's moving fast

I just installed the package and got 7 vulnerability warnings

Yeah, Gulp is slowly going to shit. There's some big update planned for the unspecified future, and even some work put into it, but when it's out nobody knows

And the maintainer won't lift a finger to update dependencies because of that

Seems like a bad idea to use it

And because it's a dev tool that doesn't make it to production, so all the vulnerabilities are fair game apparently

any alternatives you can suggest?

I haven't found anything else that would count as a plain taks runner

It's all bundlers nowadays