Bower is a package manager for the web. It allows you to manage dependencies for your web projects, ensuring that you have the right versions of libraries and frameworks. Bower can handle front-end packages like JavaScript libraries, CSS frameworks, and more.
Installing Packages
This command installs the jQuery library into your project. Bower will download the package and place it in the `bower_components` directory.
bower install jqueryListing Installed Packages
This command lists all the packages that are currently installed in your project. It provides a tree-like structure of dependencies.
bower listUpdating Packages
This command updates all the packages in your project to their latest versions, based on the versioning rules specified in your `bower.json` file.
bower updateUninstalling Packages
This command removes the jQuery library from your project. Bower will delete the package from the `bower_components` directory.
bower uninstall jqueryCreating a bower.json File
This command initializes a new `bower.json` file in your project. It will prompt you for information about your project and its dependencies.
bower initnpm (Node Package Manager) is a package manager for JavaScript, primarily used for managing Node.js packages. Unlike Bower, npm can handle both front-end and back-end packages, making it more versatile. npm also has a larger repository of packages compared to Bower.
Yarn is a package manager that doubles down as a project manager. It is an alternative to npm and offers faster performance, deterministic dependency resolution, and better security. Yarn can manage both front-end and back-end packages, similar to npm.
pnpm is a fast, disk space-efficient package manager. It uses a content-addressable file system to store all files from all module directories on a disk. When using pnpm, packages are linked from a single content-addressable storage, which saves a lot of space and makes installation faster.
A package manager for the web
Bower offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.
Bower runs over Git, and is package-agnostic. A packaged component can be made up of any type of asset, and use any type of transport (e.g., AMD, CommonJS, etc.).
View complete docs on bower.io
View all packages available through Bower's registry.
$ npm install -g bower
Bower depends on Node.js and npm. Also make sure that git is installed as some bower packages require it to be fetched and installed.
See complete command line reference at bower.io/docs/api/
# install dependencies listed in bower.json
$ bower install
# install a package and add it to bower.json
$ bower install <package> --save
# install specific version of a package and add it to bower.json
$ bower install <package>#<version> --save
We discourage using bower components statically for performance and security reasons (if component has an upload.php file that is not ignored, that can be easily exploited to do malicious stuff).
The best approach is to process components installed by bower with build tool (like Grunt or gulp), and serve them concatenated or using module loader (like RequireJS).
To uninstall a locally installed package:
$ bower uninstall <package-name>
On prezto or oh-my-zsh, do not forget to alias bower='noglob bower' or bower install jquery\#1.9.1
Bower is a user command, there is no need to execute it with superuser permissions.
However, if you still want to run commands with sudo, use --allow-root option.
To use Bower on Windows, you must install msysgit correctly. Be sure to check the option shown below:
Note that if you use TortoiseGit and if Bower keeps asking for your SSH
password, you should add the following environment variable: GIT_SSH - C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoisePlink.exe. Adjust the TortoisePlink
path if needed.
Bower can be configured using JSON in a .bowerrc file. Read over available options at bower.io/docs/config.
NOTE: Completion is still not implemented for the 1.0.0 release
Bower now has an experimental completion command that is based on, and works
similarly to the npm completion. It is
not available for Windows users.
This command will output a Bash / ZSH script to put into your ~/.bashrc,
~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zshrc file.
$ bower completion >> ~/.bash_profile
We welcome contributions of all kinds from anyone. Please take a moment to review the guidelines for contributing.
Bower is made by lots of people across the globe, contributions large and small. Our thanks to everyone who has played a part.
Copyright (c) 2014 Twitter and other contributors
Licensed under the MIT License
FAQs
The browser package manager
The npm package bower receives a total of 254,135 weekly downloads. As such, bower popularity was classified as popular.
We found that bower demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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