What Is Bower And Why You Need It
So you've heard everyone talking about this mythical creature called Bower. But what exactly is it? Better to see once than to hear 100 times, so before we proceed any further take a peek at their site . The problem Recall how you used to manage, and maybe still do, your 3rd party libraries. Firstly you went to their official site or maybe github repository. After finding the latest minified version, you would get something like this - xxx-1.0.1.min.js, then downloaded and saved it into your project. At last referencing it in the HTML would do the trick by copy pasting the script tag - <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js">. But what would have happened if a new version came up? Well, if you were aware of the update, you would repeat the process again and put xxx-1.0.2.min.js in your library folder. Then you would change the reference in your HTMLs or JavaScript files. You could of course rename the file to xxx.js and omitting the version and '