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Reputation: 3791

Should bower_components be included into the project?

I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC 5 project that was initially using Nuget for static content like Bootstrap, jQuery etc. I have now switched to bower as it is the way to go and is also integrated with visual studio.

I noticed that when installing bower packages, they are not automatically included into the project. So I have left them out for now but is this a good idea? Should bower packages be included or not? It doesn't make any difference to access because in my BundleConfig.cs file I'm still able to link these files to aliases as before.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 323

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 3791

bower will download the entire package using Git.

Your package must be publically available at a Git endpoint (e.g., GitHub). Remember to push your Git tags!

This means that bower will actually download the entire repository/release for you to use in your ASP project. I've tested this with bootstrap and jQuery. These repositories can contain many many files so including them into the .csproj file will clutter your project file and may not be ideal.

This can be compared to using nuget packages where we are only referencing external packages in the packages.config file but we do not include the dll and other assemblies into the project. This leads me to think that bower_components should indeed not be included in the project; this makes no difference to usage as you can still reference the packages and use the files.

Upvotes: 2

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