Bower
Bower Overview
- Package manager for JavaScript components
- Allows you to version JavaScript components
Install Bower
- The command below will globally install Bower
npm install bower -g
Initialize Bower
- Run the following command at the root of your project to initialize bower
- During the installation, if you are prompted for any questions, go with the defaults
- This ends up generating a bower.json file
bower init
Bower Package Installation Examples
Below is an example of how to install angular using bower
bower install angular
List Bower Packages and their dependencies
bower list
Update all packages going through the dependency chain
It's important to use bower update
instead of just updating a specific module so that it can look at the dependency chain and update all of the modules accordingly. Otherwise, you will attempt to update a specific module and it will not update since there is another module depending on that specific version.
bower update