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Reputation: 8920

Can bower.json be chained to npm install in package.json?

New to Electron I've seen a few dependencies installed with Bower. After referencing the Bower documentation it shows an install of Bower globally with:

npm install -g bower

Instead I wanted to learn if I could install everything at one executable command. After reading "adding bower as devDependency in package.json" I found that I could save it as a devDependencies with:

npm i bower --save-dev

then I could create a bower.json file like the package.json file from "Creating Packages" and in my bower.json I have:

  "dependencies": {
    "font-awesome": "^5.7.2",
    "jquery": "^3.3.1"
  }

on the same level as package.json but when I research to see if I can install everything with npm i instead of having to use:

bower i

In package.json is there a way to chain bower i to npm i so when the the project is cloned it will install everything including the Bower packages? I've been unable to find if this has been asked before from my searches.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 538

Answers (1)

Akashdeep Singh
Akashdeep Singh

Reputation: 408

Yes, there is. It's enabled using a feature called scripts in npm. npm provides hooks for you to trigger your script. I recommend using the postinstall hook which will run bower i after you run npm i.

Adapting from the docs:

{
  "name": "foo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "scripts" :
  { 
    "postinstall" : "bower i"
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

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