title: MVC 6 reference Jquery in empty template
body: <p>I've created a new MVC6 empty project. Added bower.json and jquery dependency</p>
  
  <p>bower.json</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
    "dependencies": {
      "jquery": "~2.1.4"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which it did correctly bring in to </p>
  
  <pre><code>wwwroot\lib\jquery
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I referenced it on my _layout.cshtml page</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="~/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However Intellisense has the path underlined. When opened in a browser > view source and click on path it shows an empty page as if the script was not found.</p>
  
  <p>Also, when I navigate to: <code>http://localhost:57405/lib/jquery/dist/jquery.js</code>, it's not finding it</p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong? Do I need app.UseStaticFiles(); in Startup.cs?
  Thanks</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PgzmM.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PgzmM.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>When I hover over <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> tag I get "Path Not Found" tooltip</p>