Bower Reviews and Pricing 2024

Audience

Professional users and individuals in need of a solution to manage their packages and libraries on the web

About Bower

Web sites are made of lots of things, frameworks, libraries, assets, and utilities. Bower manages all these things for you. Keeping track of all these packages and making sure they are up to date (or set to the specific versions you need) is tricky. Bower to the rescue! Bower can manage components that contain HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, or even image files. Bower doesn’t concatenate or minify code or do anything else, it just installs the right versions of the packages you need and their dependencies. To get started, Bower works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you’re looking for. Bower keeps track of these packages in a manifest file, bower.json. How you use packages is up to you. Bower provides hooks to facilitate using packages in your tools and workflows. Bower is optimized for the front-end. If multiple packages depend on a package, jQuery, for example, Bower will download jQuery just once.

Pricing

Starting Price:

Free

Free Version:

Free Version available.

Integrations

API:

Yes, Bower offers API access

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Ratings/Reviews

Overall 0.0 / 5

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features 0.0 / 5

design 0.0 / 5

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Documentation

Support

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