Node.js 6.x Blueprints

Installing frontend components with Bower

As we can see in the previous examples, we use a CDN to serve the CSS file and some JavaScript files for the example application. In this step, we will introduce a widely-used tool for dependencies management, known as Bower, for dealing with frontend frameworks such as the Twitter Bootstrap:

1. Open your terminal/shell and type the following command:

   npm install bower -g
   

   The previous command installs Bower globally on your machine.

2. Inside the root project folder, type the following command:

   bower install bootstrap#v4.0.0-alpha
   

The previous command will install Bootstrap inside the public/components folder, as we can see in the following image:

Screenshot of the components folder

Note that the previous command ...