handybower

Install bower components and collect main files.

What's This?

Wrapper utility for bower install. bower is great, but when installing, it downloads entire repositories and you need to find files your own. Really annoying.

So here is handybower, which calls bower install and collect main files automatically.

Installation

npm install handybower --save

Usage

var handybower = require('handybower');
 
handybower([
    "jquery",
    "angular#1.4.3"
], {
    dest: "src/third_party" // Dirname to save files.
}, function (err) {
    // Will generate:
    // - src/third_party/jquery.js
    // - src/third_party/angular.js
});

Options

Key	Description	Default
dest	Destination directory path.	'handybower_components'
verbose	Log verbose	false
main	Name of main files.	_detectFromBowerJson()

From CLI

Install as global module.

$ npm install handybower -g

Install via CLI.

$ handybower -d src/third_party jquery angular#1.4.3

License

This software is released under the MIT License.