Web sites are made of lots of things — frameworks, libraries, assets, utilities, and rainbows. Bower manages all these things for you.
Bower Instalamos Bower globalmente
sudo npm install -g bower
Dependencias
/home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v4.1.1/bin/bower -> /home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v4.1.1/lib/node_modules/bower/bin/bower
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Arrancamos bower.json
bower init
{
"name": "pruebas_bower",
"homepage": "https://github.com/UlisesGascon/Curso-in-company-NexTReT",
"authors": [
"ulisesgascon"
],
"description": "",
"main": "",
"moduleType": [],
"license": "MIT",
"private": true,
"ignore": [
"**/.*",
"node_modules",
"bower_components",
"test",
"tests"
]
}
Buscamos paquetes
bower search <paquete>
bower search jquery
Instalando Paquetes
bower install <paquete>
bower install jquery
Instalando versiones especificas del paquete
bower install <package>#<version>
Instalando Paquetes y guardandolos en bower.json
bower install <paquete> -save
bower install bootstrap -save
ulisesgascon:~/workspace/profe/pruebas_bower (master) $ bower install bootstrap -save
bower jquery#~2.1.4 cached git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#2.1.4
bower jquery#~2.1.4 validate 2.1.4 against git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git#~2.1.4
bower bootstrap#* not-cached git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#*
bower bootstrap#* resolve git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#*
bower bootstrap#* download https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/archive/v3.3.5.tar.gz
bower bootstrap#* extract archive.tar.gz
bower bootstrap#* resolved git://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git#3.3.5
bower jquery#~2.1.4 install jquery#2.1.4
bower bootstrap#~3.3.5 install bootstrap#3.3.5
// bower.json
{
"name": "pruebas_bower",
"homepage": "https://github.com/UlisesGascon/Curso-in-company-NexTReT",
"authors": [
"ulisesgascon"
],
"description": "",
"main": "",
"moduleType": [],
"license": "MIT",
"private": true,
"ignore": [
"**/.*",
"node_modules",
"bower_components",
"test",
"tests"
],
"dependencies": {
"jquery": "~2.1.4",
"bootstrap": "~3.3.5"
}
}
Borrando paquetes
bower uninstall <paquete>
bower uninstall jquery
Borrando paquetes y guardandolos en bower.json
bower uninstall <paquete>
bower uninstall jquery
Verificando los paquetes instalados y sus dependencias
bower list
ulisesgascon:~/workspace/profe/pruebas_bower (master) $ bower list
bower check-new Checking for new versions of the project dependencies...
pruebas_bower /home/ubuntu/workspace/profe/pruebas_bower
├─┬ bootstrap#3.3.5 (latest is 4.0.0-alpha)
│ └── jquery#2.1.4 (3.0.0-alpha1+compat available)
└── jquery#2.1.4 (latest is 3.0.0-alpha1+compat)
Actualizando todo
bower update
Actualizando un paquete específico
bower update <package>
Usando Bower
bower list -paths
ulisesgascon:~/workspace/profe/pruebas_bower (master) $ bower list -paths
bootstrap: [
'public/vendor/bootstrap/less/bootstrap.less',
'public/vendor/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js'
],
jquery: 'public/vendor/jquery/dist/jquery.js'
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="es">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags -->
<title>Bootstrap 101 Template</title>
<!-- Bootstrap -->
<link href="public/vendor/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, world!</h1>
<!-- jQuery (necessary for Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins) -->
<script src="public/vendor/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- Include all compiled plugins (below), or include individual files as needed -->
<script src="public/vendor/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Bower (Entendiendo el funcionamiento)
bower.json. ¿Qué necesitamos?
{
"name": "Mi Aplicación",
"version": "1.0.0",
"dependencies": {
"modernizr": "*",
"jquery": "~2.0.2",
"bootstrap": "*",
"requirejs": "*"
}
}
.bowerrc ¿Donde lo necesitamos?
{
"directory": "public/vendor",
"json": "bower.json"
}
Instalamos todo lo anterior
bower install
Bower (Trucos)
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Se puede instalar componentes aislados primero y luego hacer bower init para generar el bower.json con todo incluido.
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Ignoramos la carpeta bower_components con .gitignore. Recuerda que haciendo bower.init se instala todo de nuevo.
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Instalación de paquetes más alla de los definidos en search:
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Paquetes registrados:
$ bower install jquery
- Acesso directo -> GitHub:
$ bower install desandro/masonry
- .git:
$ bower install git://github.com/user/package.git
- URLs:
$ bower install http://example.com/script.js
Limitaciones
- Gestión de conflictos manual
- Fiarnos del patrón SEMVER por parte de otr@s developers
- Sistema de paquetes propio
- Redundancia respecto a NPM
- Maravillo mundo del Dependency hell
BOWER is dead. Only use it for legacy reasons.
Literatura al respecto
- Bower/bower #2298: Consider deprecating Bower
- Bower is dead, long live npm. And Yarn. And webpack in snyk.io/blog by Assaf Hefetz
- Reddit: Is bower dead? Should we start using other dependency managers?
- Quora: Is Bower dying?
Paso 1: Tus herramientas son las de siempre
Paso 2: Pasar del bower.json
al package.json
Paso 3: Deja de usar wiredep
y empieza a usar solamente require()
Nota: Esto es al estilo Browserify exclusivamente
- wiredep: Wire Bower dependencies to your source code
- browserify: browser-side require() the node.js way
- Debes instalar browserify de forma global con
npm install -g browserify
- Ejemplo de carga de dependencias
var $ = require('jquery'), _ = require('lodash'), angular = require('angular'); //..
- Puedes comprimir y unificar todo el JS en un solo comando
browserify app.js -o bundle.js
y en un único fichero<script src="bundle.js"></script>
- Si ademas instalas watchify con
watchify app.js -o bundle.js
refescas los cambios en tiempo real.
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