Bower

Bower is a package manager designed to manage front-end web dependencies such as frameworks, libraries, assets, and utilities. It handles the installation and version tracking of packages containing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images. Developers use Bower to install packages from various sources including GitHub, Git endpoints, and URLs, with installations saved to a bower_components directory and tracked in a bower.json manifest file. Bower employs a flat dependency graph, ensuring that packages required by multiple dependencies are downloaded only once to reduce page load.

Bower is developed by the bower project and is licensed under the MIT License. The tool is implemented in JavaScript and runs cross-platform as a command-line utility installed via npm. It works in conjunction with other build tools and workflows to manage dependencies. The project includes features for searching packages, saving dependencies, and provides hooks to integrate with various development tools. While Bower is maintained, the homepage recommends using Yarn and Vite for new front-end projects.