Usually we list out the new npm packages we will use, but the application finally has all the npm packages it needs. We will need a few Bower packages to finalize development, though. The following is the inclusive list of packages:

We have covered React, Backbone, Postal.js, and jQuery already. Moment.js will be used to turn time spans into human readable formats. We can now create a bower.json file in the root of our packtchat directory and add the following code to it:

{
  "name": "nodechat",
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "0.11.1",
    "backbone": "1.1.2",
    "postal.js": "0.10.3",
    "jquery": "2.1.1",
    "momentjs": "2.8.1"
  }
}

We now run bower install and all the frontend dependencies will be downloaded and added to bower_components.