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..psst! While Bower is maintained, we recommendyarn andwebpack orparcel for new front-end projects!

Bower offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem offront-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 onbower.io

View all packages available through Bower's registry.

$ npm install -g bower

Bower depends onNode.js andnpm. Also make sure thatgit is installed as some bowerpackages require it to be fetched and installed.

See complete command line reference atbower.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 anupload.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 (likeGrunt orgulp), and serve them concatenated or using a module loader (likeRequireJS).

To uninstall a locally installed package:

$ bower uninstall<package-name>

Onprezto oroh-my-zsh, do not forget toalias bower='noglob bower' orbower install jquery\#1.9.1

Bower is a user command; there is no need to execute it with superuser permissions.

To use Bower on Windows, you must installGit for Windows correctly. Be sure to check theoptions shown below:

Note that if you use TortoiseGit and if Bower keeps asking for your SSHpassword, you should add the following environment variable:GIT_SSH - C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\TortoisePlink.exe. Adjust theTortoisePlinkpath if needed.

To use Bower on Ubuntu, you might need to linknodejs executable tonode:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Bower can be configured using JSON in a.bowerrc file. Read over available options atbower.io/docs/config.

You can ask questions on following channels in order:

• StackOverflow
• Issue Tracker
• team@bower.io

We welcomecontributions of all kinds from anyone. Please take a moment to review theguidelines for contributing.

• Bug reports
• Feature requests
• Pull requests

Note that on Windows for tests to pass you need to configure Git before cloning:

git config --global core.autocrlf input

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