Usage

See complete command line reference at bower.io/docs/api/

Installing packages and dependencies

Using packages

We discourage using bower components statically for performance and security reasons (if component has an upload.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 (like Grunt or gulp), and serve them concatenated or using module loader (like RequireJS).

Uninstalling packages

To uninstall a locally installed package:

prezto and oh-my-zsh users

On prezto or oh-my-zsh, do not forget to alias bower='noglob bower' or bower install jquery\#1.9.1

Running commands with sudo

Bower is a user command, there is no need to execute it with superuser permissions. However, if you still want to run commands with sudo, use --allow-root option.

Windows users

To use Bower on Windows, you must install msysgit correctly. Be sure to check the option shown below:



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

Configuration

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

Completion (experimental)

NOTE: Completion is still not implemented for the 1.0.0 release

Bower now has an experimental completion command that is based on, and works similarly to the npm completion. It is not available for Windows users.

This command will output a Bash / ZSH script to put into your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zshrc file.

Support

• StackOverflow


• Mailinglist - twitter-bower@googlegroups.com


• #bower on Freenode

Contributing

We welcome contributions of all kinds from anyone. Please take a moment to review the guidelines for contributing.

• Bug reports


• Feature requests


• Pull requests

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

Bower Team

Bower is made by lots of people across the globe, contributions large and small. Our thanks to everyone who has played a part.

Core team

• @satazor


• @wibblymat


• @paulirish


• @benschwarz


• @svnlto


• @sheerun

Bower Alumni

• @fat


• @maccman

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Twitter and other contributors

Licensed under the MIT License

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