I'm figuring out how to install packages using bower.
When I 'bower install packagename', packages are installed in /app/components/.
However, I'd like to dictate the structure of my projects myself.
Is there a way to configure bower to install packages in particular places?
Bower can be configured using JSON in a .bowerrc file.
The directory setting is the path in which installed components should be saved.
If not specified it will be install in the default path.
So for example :
{
"directory" : "package/components",
"json" : "bower.json"
}
Here we tell bower to install packages in the subfolder package/components, and use a file named bower.json to store its data.
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When I install the following package from this git url, it creates a directory /flyLabel.js
bower install https://github.com/space150/flyLabel.js.git
The fact the directory has a dot in its name is causing issues elsewhere when I am trying to include it.
Question
Is there a way to change the name of the directory Bower is going to create when it installs the package?
I initialized a bower project under d:\myProject and if i run bower install angularjs the packages are copy in the same folder. But what i need to do is to copy the packages under d:\myprojects\src\resources\static. How can i do that?
Bower's docs tell you that adding the "directory" tag in your .bowerrc file will make bower put downloaded packages in that dir.
notice that the path is relative to where you have the project's json so in your case:
{
"directory": "src/resources/static/"
...
}
Also see this answer and this one.
I am having trouble installing files with the appropriate name folder and sub folder. Bower 1.4.1
In project root directory. I've added .bowerrc
{ "directory": "public/lib" }
When I run "bower install angular", the files are being added to the default folder bower_components. I've already tried removing bower and installing it. I've already looked into the bower configuration page. I can't seem to get it to work the way I want it to. Any solutions to my problem?
I am trying to use Bower to install jquery.
The frustrating problem I have been running into is that bower downloads the entire repro. I was hoping to tell bower to install a certain version of jquery and have only those files downloaded.
I did try the suggestion here with no luck. The entire repo is still downloaded even after clearing the bower cache
I would rather have something else manage which files to download than me manually specifying the file names in bower.json
bower.json in the repo : https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/bower.json
Thank you
I think you didn't unterstand the meening of bower:
Bower is handling you dependencys, so if you do a:
bower install jquery
it should download all files.
Now to you question:
you have following options:
declare wich file you want to download:
bower install http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.min.js
but remember:
this file cant be updated easily
search for a js only package:
expample with bootstrap:
bower install bootstrap-css-only
but remember:
these packages sometimes are not up to date
use bower-installer (recommended):
install the bower-installer:
npm install bower-installer --global
and now follow the tutorial:
bower-installer github
sorry for my bad english :-)
When I install a library from a git repo via:
bower install git#github.com:fabiantheblind/p5.js.git --save
the component gets cloned into my bower_components but there is no bower.json in the folder. Just a .bower.json.
Why is that so and how can I fix this?
I also get the output:
bower invalid-meta p5.js is missing "main" entry in bower.json
bower invalid-meta p5.js is missing "ignore" entry in bower.json
But the entries are there.
(The final aim is to use grunt-wiredep to install dependencies automagically. See my open issue here )
Okay. After fiddeling a bit more I got the answer:
My clone of the repo had the bower.json but I did not create a tag for it. So bower was still looking at the latest tag 0.3.6 where no bower.json was present.
By creating the tag 0.3.7 the problem is solved.