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Working with Bower - Grunt.js Tutorial
From the course: Grunt.js: Web Workflows
Working with Bower
- Different websites have different needs and so we often install different frameworks or libraries into our code to take advantage of some of these cool features. So you may use something like Bootstrap or Underscore or Angular. And they can be sort of a pain to install into the projects because we have to go to different websites, look through the different installation instructions, to take advantage of them. Bower makes this super easy to do. It's sort of a npm for your web projects. It works with most preprocessor engines like Grunt. So let's take a look at how it works. Now first, we need to have the CLI, or the Command Line Interface, installed into our terminal. So I'm going to switch over to my terminal application. And I'm going to do an npm install -g bower. You may need to do this as the super user, depending on your permissions. So if this happens, just type in sudo at the beginning. And put it your password. Alright. Once that's done, let's go ahead and clear our…
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