BOWER.md

bower

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If you haven't already read the npm intro, then now's a good time to do that. bower is similar to npm in so many ways, so understanding npm will help you're understanding of bower.

To install bower, run this command:

npm install -g bower

bower components are usually (if not always) client-side modules. They include javascript, css, fonts, images, polyfills, html, basically anything you can include in the front-end. Where you would use npm to download your 'back-end' modules, you would use bower to download and manage your front-end modules.

Install components

Basically the same as npm. Everything gets downloaded into a bower_components directory:

bower install angular angular-route angular-animate

Dependendencies will also be downloaded. Unlike npm, dependencies don't get nested within their dependents. They also don't really get included automatically like npm modules do. When you get into build process, we'll talk more about how to deal with that.

You can look up packages using bower search [search term] or you can look them up at bower.io.

How to keep track of installed components

bower is a lot like npm in this manner. It uses a bower.json file instead of a package.json. And to generate the bower.json, use

bower init

and follow the prompts.

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