CHAPTER 1
Bower
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The concept of package management, also known as dependency management, is not new. Utilities within this category provide developers with a mechanism for managing the various third-party libraries that a project relies on. Widely used examples include
- npm: The package manager for Node.js
- Composer: A tool for dependency management in PHP
- pip: The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages
- NuGet: The package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET
While package management is hardly a new idea, a practice that ...
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