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What is Bower?
Bower is just a package manager. The important thing to note here is that Bower is just a package manager, and nothing else. It doesn't offer the ability to concatenate or minify code, it doesn't support a module system like AMD: it's sole purpose is to manage packages.

Bower is a package manager. It's good at, well, managing packages

Bower works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you’re looking for.

There are some things you'll need before you can start working with Bower:

  • The command line. 
  • Node and NPM. Bower is a Node module so to get it you need NPM.
  • Git. Bower packages are Git repos. Bower uses Git to understand where the package is, what version it's on—that sort of thing.
  • Global Installation. Technically you could install it in every project but you'll probably want to have it everywhere.

To work with Bower you'll need Node.js and git. Installation:

 npm install -g bower

 Video about Bower introduction

posted Jun 16, 2016 by Madhavi Latha

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