Bower:a package manager for the web

Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file, bower.json.

Install Bower

Bower is a command line utility. Install it with npm.

$ npm install -g bower

Bower requires Node and npm and Git.

Install packages with bower install. Bower installs packages to bower_components/.

$ bower install <package>

A package can be a GitHub shorthand, a Git endpoint, a URL, and more. Read more about bower install.

# registered package
$ bower install jquery
# GitHub shorthand
$ bower install desandro/masonry
# Git endpoint
$ bower install git://github.com/user/package.git
# URL
$ bower install http://example.com/script.js