symfony · weaverryan · May 23, 2015 · Apr 8, 2015 · xabbuh · Apr 11, 2015
diff --git a/cookbook/frontend/bower.rst b/cookbook/frontend/bower.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+.. index::
+    single: Front-end; Bower
+
+Using Bower with Symfony
+========================
+
+Symfony and all its packages are perfectly managed by Composer. Bower is a
+dependency management tool for front-end dependencies, like Bootstrap or
+jQuery. As Symfony is purely a back-end framework, it can't help you much with
+Bower. Fortunately, it is very easy to use!
+
+Installing Bower
+----------------
+
+Bower_ is built on top of `Node.js`_. Make sure you have that installed and
+then run:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ npm install -g bower
+
+After this command succeeded, run ``bower`` in your terminal to find out if
+it's installed correctly.
+
+.. tip::
+
+    If you don't want to have NodeJS on your computer, you can also use
+    BowerPHP_ (an unofficial PHP port of Bower). Beware that this is still in
+    an alpha state. If you're using BowerPHP, use ``bowerphp`` instead of
+    ``bower`` in the examples.
+
+Configuring Bower in your Project
+---------------------------------
+
+Normally, Bower downloads everything into a ``bower_components/`` directory. In
+Symfony, only files in the ``web/`` directory are publicly accessible, so you
+need to configure Bower to download things there instead. To do that, just
+create a ``.bowerrc`` file with a new destination (like ``web/assets/vendor``):
+
+.. code-block:: json
+
+    {
+        "directory": "web/assets/vendor/"
+    }
+
+An Example: Installing Bootstrap
+--------------------------------
+
+Believe it or not, but you're now ready to use Bower in your Symfony
+application. As an example, you'll now install Bootstrap in your project and
+include it in your layout.
+
+Installing the Dependency
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To create a ``bower.json`` file, just run ``bower init``. Now you're ready to
+start adding things to your project. For example, to add Bootstrap_ to your
+``bower.json`` and download it, just run:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ bower install --save bootstrap
+
+This will install Bootstrap and its dependencies in ``web/assets/vendor/`` (or
+whatever directory you configured in ``.bowerrc``).
+
+.. seealso::
+
+    For more details on how to use Bower, check out `Bower documentation`_.
+
+Including the Dependency in your Template
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Now that the dependencies are installed, you can include bootstrap in your
+template like normal CSS/JS:
+
+.. configuration-block::
+
+    .. code-block:: html+jinja
+
+        {# app/Resources/views/layout.html.twig #}
+        <!doctype html>
+        <html>
+            <head>
+                {# ... #}
+
+                <link rel="stylesheet"
+                    href="{{ asset('assets/vendor/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css') }}">
+            </head>
+
+            {# ... #}
+        </html>
+
+    .. code-block:: html+php
+
+        <!-- app/Resources/views/layout.html.php -->
+        <!doctype html>
+        <html>
+            <head>
+                {# ... #}
+
+                <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $view['assets']->getUrl(
+                    'assets/vendor/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css'
+                ) ?>">
+            </head>
+
+            {# ... #}
+        </html>
+
+Great job! Your site is now using Bootstrap. You can now easily upgrade
+bootstrap to the latest version and manage other front-end dependencies too.
+
+.. _Bower: http://bower.io
+.. _`Node.js`: https://nodejs.org
+.. _BowerPHP: http://bowerphp.org/
+.. _`Bower documentation`: http://bower.io/
+.. _Bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/
diff --git a/cookbook/frontend/index.rst b/cookbook/frontend/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Front-end
+=========
+
+.. toctree::
+    :maxdepth: 2
+
+    bower
diff --git a/cookbook/index.rst b/cookbook/index.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ The Cookbook
     email/index
     event_dispatcher/index
     form/index
+    frontend/index
     logging/index
     profiler/index
     request/index

diff --git a/cookbook/map.rst.inc b/cookbook/map.rst.inc
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@
   * (validation) :doc:`/cookbook/validation/custom_constraint`
   * (doctrine) :doc:`/cookbook/doctrine/file_uploads`
 
+* :doc:`/cookbook/frontend/index`
+
+  * :doc:`/cookbook/frontend/bower`
+
 * :doc:`/cookbook/logging/index`
 
   * :doc:`/cookbook/logging/monolog`