base-bower

base-bower

Base plugin that adds methods for programmatically installing bower packages.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install base-bower --save

Usage

var bower = require('base-bower');
var Base = require('base');
var app = new Base();
app.use(bower());

// install bower packages `bootstrap` and `moment`
app.bower.saveDev(['bootstrap', 'moment'], function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

API

.bower

Execute bower install with the given args, package names and callback.

Params

• args {String|Array}
• names {String|Array}
• cb {Function}: Callback

Example

app.bower('--save', ['isobject'], function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

.bower.install

Execute bower install with one or more package names. Does not save anything to bower.json.

Params

• names {String|Array}
• cb {Function}: Callback

Example

app.bower.install('isobject', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

.bower.latest

Force (re-)install the latest version of all dependencies listed in bower.json.

Params

• cb {Function}: Callback

Example

app.bower.latest(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

.bower.save

Execute bower install --save with one or more package names. Updates dependencies in bower.json.

Params

• names {String|Array}
• cb {Function}: Callback

Example

app.bower.save('micromatch', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

.bower.saveDev

Execute bower install --save-dev with one or more package names. Updates devDependencies in bower.json.

Params

• names {String|Array}
• cb {Function}: Callback

Example

app.bower.saveDev('isobject', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
});

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

Generate readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install verb && npm run docs

Or, if verb is installed globally:

$ verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

Follow me on GitHub or Twitter for updates about base-bower and my other libraries:

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

This file was generated by verb, v, on April 07, 2016.