# Welcome to ASP.NET 5 Preview

We've made some big updates in this release, so it’s important that you spend a few minutes to learn what’s new.
ASP.NET 5 has been rearchitected to make it lean and composable. It's fully open source and available on GitHub.
Your new project automatically takes advantage of modern client-side utilities like Bower and npm (to add client-side libraries) and Gulp (for client-side build and automation tasks).
We hope you enjoy the new capabilities in ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015.
The ASP.NET Team

You've created a new ASP.NET 5 project. Learn what's new

## This application consists of:

- Sample pages using ASP.NET MVC 6
- Gulp and Bower for managing client-side resources
- Theming using Bootstrap

## New concepts

- The 'wwwroot' explained
- Configuration in ASP.NET 5
- Dependency Injection
- Razor TagHelpers
- Manage client packages using Gulp
- Develop on different platforms

## Customize app

- Add Controllers and Views
- Add Data using EntityFramework
- Add Authentication using Identity
- Add real time support using SignalR
- Add Class library
- Add Web APIs with MVC 6
- Add client packages using Bower

## Deploy

- Run your app locally
- Run your app on ASP.NET Core 5
- Run commands in your project.json
- Publish to Microsoft Azure Web Sites
- Publish to the file system