If you're not impressed enough with npm as a backend JavaScript package manager, perhaps Bower will take you to the next level of joy. (Refer to http://bower.io/.) Bower works very similarly to npm. In fact, most commands and conventions that we've just discussed for npm work verbatim in Bower.
In fact, Bower itself is a Node.js module that is installed through npm:
npm install bower -g
We can interact with Bower the same way we've interacted with npm so far.
bower init
// … using all proposed defaults
// - - - - - - -
// bower.json
{
name: 'npm',
version: '0.0.0',
homepage: 'https://github.com/formigone',
authors: [
'Rodrigo Silveira <[email protected]>'
],
license: 'MIT',
ignore: [
'**/.*',
'node_modules',
'bower_components',
'test',
'tests'
]
}Bower makes use of a bower.json manifest file, which by now should look somewhat familiar to you. To install dependencies, either edit the manifest by...