Okay – on that note, we now have a working plugin and it's ready for use.
At this point, we could just release it as it is, but the smart alternative is to package it for use with managers such as Bower or NPM. This has the advantage of downloading and installing all the required packages, without the need to browse to individual sites and manually download each version.
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We can even go to the extent of automating our development workflow with build tools such as Gulp and Grunt – for an example of how, head over to https://www.codementor.io/bower/tutorial/beginner-tutorial-getting-started-bower-package-manager.
For now, let's take a quick look at the steps to automate the creation of our Bower package:
For this demo, we will need to install NodeJS. So head over to http://nodejs.org/, download the appropriate binary or package and install, accepting all defaults.
Next, we need to install Bower. Fire up the NodeJS command prompt that will have been installed,...