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Installation

#!bash
npm install -g bower #Install bower with npm globally (available in every folder)

Useful commands

#!bash
bower list #List all installed package 
bower install #Install the dependencies listed in bower.json
bower update #update installed dependencies
bower search packageName #Search a package name 
bower info packageName # with an exact package name, get info (read the bower.json and get available versions)

• Update only one library bower update will always update all libraries that need to. To update only one library use bower install instead. It will override, the previous version

Bower versioning

Bower use versionning syntax used in SEMVER that stand as semantic versionning

Tutorials

• http://www.synbioz.com/blog/bower
• http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/getting-started-bower
• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/meet-bower-a-package-manager-for-the-web--net-27774

Bower recipes

How to download only useful files with bower http://joshbranchaud.com/blog/2014/02/19/Managing-Single-Files-With-Bower.html