I’m trying to install Bower on XUbuntu 13.10, following the instructions on the Bower home page, after doing sudo apt-get install npm and sudo npm install -g bower I get the following after issuing bower on the command line: /usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory I then install Node (even though I assume that … Read more
Bower install fails with 502 – Bad Gateway when downloading bower packages. For example bower install for ember library gives following response in command line. EINVRES Request to https://bower.herokuapp.com/packages/ember failed with 502 When http://bower.herokuapp.com/ is accessed directly from URL it gives the following message. This Bower version is deprecated. Please update it: npm install -g … Read more
Git is installed and is in the path. Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8. >which git /usr/local/bin/git Yet bower can’t find it: bower angular#1.0.6 ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH What is the recommended work-around? 17 Answers 17
I run the following commands using bower 1.0.0: mkdir testdir;cd testdir bower init #accept defaults bower install jquery -s #the -s is supposed to cause update of bower.json less bower.json In bower.json I expect to see dependencies listed, but there are none. What is going on? NOTE: bower install jquery –save does work NOTE: The … Read more
I am trying to set up Bower on a build server at our organization’s data center, but git‘s port does not appear to be open on the data center’s firewall. I can use the git command line client to clone via https://[repo], but not git://[repo]. Is there a switch or preference which will instruct bower … Read more
Bower enables me to specify version requirements for packages using the following syntax: “dependencies”: { “<name>”: “<version>”, }, But I have not been able to find what is the syntax to use for the <version>. I know that I can specify versions to be: greater than a certain version with “>1.0.0” greater than or equal … Read more
I am creating my first Bower component. After running bower init the script asks me ‘what types of modules does this package expose?’ with these options: amd es6 globals node what is the difference between these options? 3 Answers 3
I’m making a new project that uses bower from twitter. I created a component.json to maintain all my dependency like jquery. Then I run bower install that installs everything in a folder named components. But I need to install the components in a different folder, e.g. public/components. I have tried editing my components.json into: { … Read more
I’m new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :). I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I’m familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile) Question: when I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does … Read more
What is the fundamental difference between bower and npm? Just want something plain and simple. I’ve seen some of my colleagues use bower and npm interchangeably in their projects. 8 All package managers have many downsides. You just have to pick which you can live with. History npm started out managing node.js modules (that’s why … Read more
