Bower API Cheat Sheet

cache

$ bower cache <command> [<args>]

Manage bower cache

cache clean

$ bower cache clean
$ bower cache clean <name> [<name> ...]
$ bower cache clean <name>#<version> [<name>#<version> ..]

Cleans cached packages

cache list

$ bower cache list
$ bower cache list <name> [<name> ...]

Lists cached packages

help

$ bower help <command>

Display help information about Bower

home

$ bower home
$ bower home <package>
$ bower home <package>#<version>

Opens a package homepage into your favorite browser.

init

$ bower init

Interactively create a bower.json file

info

$ bower info <package>
$ bower info <package> [<property>]
$ bower info <package>#<version> [<property>]

Displays overall information of a package or of a particular version.

install

$ bower install [<options>]
$ bower install <endpoint> [<endpoint> ..] [<options>]

Installs the project dependencies or a specific set of endpoints.

link

$ bower link
$ bower link <name> [<local name>]

The link functionality allows developers to easily test their packages.

login

$ bower login

Authenticate with GitHub and store credentials. Required to unregister packages.

list

$ bower list [<options>]

List local packages and possible updates.

lookup

$ bower lookup <name>

Look up a package URL by name

prune

$ bower prune

Uninstalls local extraneous packages

register

$ bower register <name> <url>

search

$ bower search
$ bower search <name>

Finds all packages or a specific package.

uninstall

$ bower uninstall <name> [<name> ..] [<options>]

Uninstalls a package locally from your bower_components directory

update

$ bower update <name> [<name> ..] [<options>]

Updates installed packages to their newest version according to bower.json

unregister

$ bower unregister <package>

Unregisters a package

version

$ bower version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch]

Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to the bower.json file

Options

allow-root

--allow-root

Allows running commands as root.

force

-f, --force

Makes various commands more forceful

json

-j, --json

Output consumable JSON

log-level

-l, --log-level

What level of logs to report

offline

-o, --offline

Do not use network connection

quiet

-q, --quiet

Only output important information

silent

-s, --silent

Do not output anything, besides errors

verbose

-V, --verbose

Makes output more verbose

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