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About Bower
Web sites are made of lots of things, frameworks, libraries, assets, and utilities. Bower manages all these things for you. Keeping track of all these packages and making sure they are up to date (or set to the specific versions you need) is tricky. Bower to the rescue! Bower can manage components that contain HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, or even image files. Bower doesn’t concatenate or minify code or do anything else, it just installs the right versions of the packages you need and their dependencies. To get started, Bower works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you’re looking for. Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file, bower.json. How you use packages is up to you. Bower provides hooks to facilitate using packages in your tools and workflows. Bower is optimized for the front-end. If multiple packages depend on a package, jQuery, for example, Bower will download jQuery just once.
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Bower Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Bower work with?
Bower works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Bower support in their product?
Bower supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Bower offer?
Bower offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Bower integrate with?
Bower integrates with: Gemfury, JFrog, Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Rails Assets, Seeker, Yeoman, and Yii.
Q: Does Bower have an API?
Yes, Bower has an API.
Q: What type of training does Bower provide?
Bower provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Bower cost?
Pricing for Bower starts at Free.
