bower commands

Bower is a package manager, which makes it easy to manage all of your application’s front-end dependencies

Installing Bower

npm install -g bower

Finding Packages

bower search
bower search backbone

Installing Packages

bower install backbone
bower install http://backbonejs.org/backbone-min.js

Updating packages

bower update

Uninstalling Packages

bower uninstall backbone

List the bower packages currently installed

bower list

Show versions of a package

bower info backbone

Remove cached packages

bower cache-clean

Installing packages using a bower.json file

// this bower.json file is used to define a Bower package

{
 "name": "app-name",
 "version": "0.0.1",
 "dependencies": {
 "sass-bootstrap": "~3.0.0",
 "modernizr": "~2.6.2",
 "jquery": "~1.10.2"
 },
 "private": true
}

Utility for creating a bower.json file for your project.

bower init

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