Bower for Meteor

Bower.io is a popular repository of client-side JavaScript libraries. In the root of your Meteor app, create a bower.json file:

{
  "name": "my-app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "select2": "3.4.5",
    "backbone": "1.1.0"
  },
  "private": true
}

The next time you run meteor, the select2 and backbone libraries will be downloaded, and the appropriate HTML tags to include those libraries will automatically be added to your app. So you can just start using select2 widgets, and styles will be set correctly. (If you're curious just look at the HTML source of a rendered page!)

Compare this to just using the bower command, where you need to either manually reference the included files or use something like grunt-bower-install to reference them.

If you want to use the bower install <package> --save command, you can add this .bowerrc file in the project root directory:

{
  "directory" : ".meteor/local/bower"
}

If you need to reference the raw files (eg Polymer components in html files), you can set a different directory, eg "public/bower". TODO: allow multiple installation directories #49.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome, whether it is a bug report or a PR with a fix or enhancement.

Tips

If you would like to buy me a beer, I proudly accept bitcoin tips: 1BowerXo5THZftsQa11G7EXv5cWX7A8ZZ7

License

This code is published under the MIT license.