How to include libraries installed through NPM in an MVC project in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I am trying to switch from Bower to NPM.

While I used Bower, it was easy to set up a .bowerrc file and load the downloaded libraries into a directory like wwwroot / lib

Now I am developing an ASP.Net Core MVC application and trying to use NPM as my default package manager. Using the Command Line in Visual Studio 2017, NPM creates the package.json file and loads the libraries into the node_modules folder. Then what next? How can I get JS or CSS files as I used in the wwwroot / lib directory?