Questions tagged [bower]
Bower is a package manager for the web. Bower lets you easily install assets such as images, CSS and JavaScript, and manages dependencies for you.
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NPM vs. Bower vs. Browserify vs. Gulp vs. Grunt vs. Webpack [closed]
I'm trying to summarize my knowledge about the most popular JavaScript package managers, bundlers, and task runners. Please correct me if I'm wrong:
npm & bower are package managers. They just ...
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What is the difference between Bower and npm?
What is the fundamental difference between bower and npm? Just want something plain and simple. I've seen some of my colleagues use bower and npm interchangeably in their projects.
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Difference between Grunt, NPM, and Bower (package.json vs bower.json)
When I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?
From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and ...
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How to change bower's default components folder?
I'm making a new project that uses bower from twitter. I created a component.json to maintain all my dependency like jquery. Then I run bower install that installs everything in a folder named ...
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bower init - difference between amd, es6, globals and node
I am creating my first Bower component. After running bower init the script asks me 'what types of modules does this package expose?' with these options:
amd
es6
globals
node
what is the ...
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What is the bower (and npm) version syntax?
Bower enables me to specify version requirements for packages using the following syntax:
"dependencies": {
"<name>": "<version>",
},
But I have not been able to find what is the ...
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Bower install using only https?
I am trying to set up Bower on a build server at our organization's data center, but git's port does not appear to be open on the data center's firewall. I can use the git command line client to ...
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bower automatically update bower.json
I run the following commands using bower 1.0.0:
mkdir testdir;cd testdir
bower init #accept defaults
bower install jquery -s #the -s is supposed to cause update of bower.json
less bower.json
In ...
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Bower: ENOGIT Git is not installed or not in the PATH
Git is installed and is in the path.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.
>which git
/usr/local/bin/git
Yet bower can't find it:
bower angular#1.0.6 ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the ...
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EINVRES Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/ failed with 502
Bower install fails with 502 - Bad Gateway when downloading bower packages.
For example bower install for ember library gives following response in command line.
EINVRES Request to https://bower....
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npm - EPERM: operation not permitted on Windows
I ran
npm config set prefix /usr/local
After running that command,
When trying to run any npm commands on Windows OS I keep getting the below.
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'C:\...
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Installing Bower on Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Bower on XUbuntu 13.10, following the instructions on the Bower home page, after doing sudo apt-get install npm and sudo npm install -g bower I get the following after issuing ...
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bower command not found
I tried to install twitter bower on my Mac, and I used
npm install bower -g
Then I tried bower --help, and the output was bower command not found. Why is that?
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How to install latest (untagged) state of a repo using bower?
I have a very small repo in which I do all dev work in the master branch and use tags as "stable" points in history.
I guess by default Bower seems to fetch the latest tagged version of a repo. I'm ...
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JavaScript dependency management: npm vs. bower vs. volo [closed]
How do you compare npm, bower and volo?
All three can be used to install JavaScript dependencies for a UI project.
I understand npm is more node specific.
So, when to use what?
npm still stands ...
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Bower and devDependencies vs dependencies
I ran 'yo angular' and realized afterwards that it installs 1.0.8, I uninstalled the angular components, however the original bower.json file had angular-mocks and angular-scenario under '...
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Should bower_components be gitignored?
Would it be good practice to keep only the bower.json file and gitignore the whole bower_components directory?
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Installing a dependency with Bower from URL and specify version
I am trying to install a dependency with Bower using a URL. As of Bower documentation:
Bower offers several ways to install packages:
# Using the dependencies listed in the current directory's ...
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Using bootstrap with bower
I'm trying to use bootstrap with bower, but since it clones the whole repo, there is no CSS and other stuff.
Does it means that I need to include building Bootstrap in my own build process? Or if I'm ...
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How can I update bower.json with installed packages?
In my project I've installed Bower components without the save option. Now, I would like update to bower.json.
How can I update bower.json with installed packages?
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How to fix bower ECMDERR
I'm using "yeoman" and "bower" on windows 7 but got the following error when I create the app
yo webapp
The error is
bower not-cached git://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap.git#~3.0.0
bower ...
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NPM/Bower/Composer - differences?
Can someone explain to me the difference between NPM, Bower and Composer.
They are all package managers - correct?
But when should each one be used?
Also, each one appears to have a json file that ...
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Extending AngularJs Directive
I'd like to make a minor modification to a 3rd party directive (specifically Angular UI Bootstrap). I simply want to add to the scope of the pane directive:
angular.module('ui.bootstrap.tabs', [])
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bower command not found windows
I am having huge problems trying to use bower (to install foundation 5) or get anything bower related to work on the command line.
I've installed
ruby 1.9.3
git (with run from command prompt ...
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What is the "main file" property when doing bower init?
What is the use of property main file when you run bower init? I have been looking and many people says that it currently has no purpose.
Is that true? Bower's documentation doesn't explain it either....
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How to find available versions for a bower dependency
Let's say I want to include the latest version of jquery-ui in my bower.json. Is there any way of finding out which versions are available?
I see that I can find available components on http://...
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Using Grunt, Bower, Gulp, NPM with Visual Studio 2015 for a ASP.NET 4.5 Project
Visual Studio 2015 comes with built in support for tools like Grunt, Bower, Gulp and NPM for ASP.NET 5 projects.
However when I create a ASP.NET 4.5.2 project using Visual Studio 2015 it doesn't use ...
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Git / Bower Errors: Exit Code # 128 & Failed connect
I am using Bower to install several libraries. For demonstration purposes here, I am installing bootstrap. Regardless of the package, I receive the following errors:
C:\Scott>bower install ...
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Recommended way to include bootstrap library in Ember.JS ember-cli App
I am trying to install properly Twitter Bootstrap in my current ember-cli project.
I did install bootstrap with bower :
bower install --save bootstrap
Now the library is downloded in /vendor/...
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Bower calls blocked by corporate proxy
I'm trying to use Bower for a web app, but find myself hitting some sort of proxy issues:
D:\>bower search jquery
bower retry Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/search/jquery ...
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Package Manager: Bower vs jspm
How is Bower different than jspm? Can Bower provide jspm functionality about SystemJS universal module loader?
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Node JS NPM modules installed but command not recognized
Node JS and NPM were working well before. Recently I have re-installed the Node JS, NPM and the problem started. After I install a module like an example npm install -g bower, the module gets ...
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Bower: Install 2 versions of jQuery
How would I go about installing 2 versions of jQuery using bower? I want to have v2.0 as well as 1.9.1 for browser support fallback
The issue I'm having is that if you run bower install jquery#1.9....
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configure node express to serve static bower_components?
I have a directory structure
projectName
| - bower_components/
| - public/
| - css
| - js
| - index.html
| - Gruntfile.js
| - package.json
| - bower.json
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What is the purpose of .bin folder in node_modules?
Today one colleague explained me how to create nodejs projects and I notice that in ./node_modules there is an invisible folder named .bin. I must said that I discovered this after adding to the ...
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How do you uninstall all your bower packages?
Sometimes it's useful to rebuild an entire site and force bower to reinstall new versions of all the packages in bower.json.
However, there doesn't seem to be any way of doing that:
Attempt #1:
$ ...
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How to resolve Bower dependency version conflicts?
I have a project that depends on both:
jquery ~1.9.1
another project which in turn depends on jquery >=1.7.2
But when I run bower install, it ends up installing jquery 2.0.2.
This seems broken.
How ...
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What is the difference between brew, yarn, and npm?
I was using the react-native package which I installed globally with npm. Now it says at the first line after executing the init command. The following:
Installing react-native from npm...
Consider ...
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Automate npm and bower install with grunt
I have a node / angular project that uses npm for backend dependency management and bower for frontend dependency management. I'd like to use a grunt task to do both install commands. I haven't been ...
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Specifying latest revision of a particular branch with bower
I want to specify the latest revision of a particular branch as a dependency. Specifically, I'd like to use Bootstrap v3.0 before it is released.
What is the best way to specify that as a dependency ...
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"ignore" in Bower's bower.json?
Bower's website describes the ignore key in bower.json:
ignore [array]: An array of paths not needed in production that you want Bower to ignore when installing your package.
Does this mean that ...
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How to register a local git package in Bower?
How can I register a local git package in bower?
My current component.json is as follows
{
"name": "myproject",
"version": "1.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"jquery": "1.8.0",
"twitter/...
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Can bower automatically write <script> tags into index.html?
I'm using yeoman's backbone generator, and I ran this:
bower install backbone.localStorage -S
And I manually had to insert this into index.html:
<script src="bower_components/backbone....
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What does 'invalid' mean when using npm list?
I am new to nodejs and i had just installed bower module globally. Ever since then, npm list command gives the following output which I searched for on the web but couldn't find any help :
**npm ERR! ...
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bower proxy configuration
is there a way to configure bower not only to use a proxy but ignore the proxy configuration for some domains?
I have the problem, that I will run an internal bower registry for our own developed ...
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Run bower from root user, it's possible? How?
I have a local development server where I test a lot of things, now I'm playing with bower to manage the libraries' dependencies in my Symfony2 project. After getting NodeJS (v0.10.31) installed and ...
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Choose bower install directory
This is a follow-up to this question. I'm using bower 0.7.1, and still cannot get the components to be installed anywhere else than in the components folder.
I tried adding the following line to my ...
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Problems updating bower to the latest version
I am using bower
$ bower -v
0.9.2
latest version of bower is 1.x.x
https://github.com/bower/bower/releases
I run to update bower to the latest version
npm update -g bower
this does not help
I ...
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Can I add a git repository to my bower.json? [duplicate]
I am trying to use bower to pull down a git repository when I run a bower install. Is there any way of listing a git repository as a dependency? I can't find any info in the documentation, but maybe ...
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Cannot find module 'internal/fs' after upgrading to node 7
We've recently tried to upgrade to node v7.0.0 on our build server, but started to have issues during the application build task failing on the "bower_concat" step:
Loading "bower-concat.js" tasks......
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