bower_lab

A project to get my hands dirty with bower, a package manager utility by Twitter.

A Quick Sumary

• Bower is a front-end package management utility tool.
• It's like Bundler in the RoR world.
• bower.json is to Bower, like Gemfile is to Bundler
• Newer versions of Bower use bower.json to store package dependency information. The older versions of Bower were using components.json.
• 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.).

Bower CheatSheet for my quick reference

• To create a new file in the project repository, just bower init
• To install a package, simply type bower install package_name#version as in bower install jquery and bower install jquery#1.2.3
• Use --save option during install, to record the dependency in bower config. Example command: bower install <package> --save
• bower list or bower ls will list the packages you currently have installed
• If you’d like to see what repository URL a certain package refers to, use the bower lookup <package> command
• To know what versions of a package are available, use bower info <package> command
• The bower install <package> command saves a copy of it to ~/.bower/<package> to speed up later installations of the same package
• ~/.bower`` is the bower cache. You can clear the cache with the command: bower cache-clean```

Prerequisites

• Node
• NPM

Contributors

• Karthik Sirasanagandla

References:

• Bower
• Net Tutplus