Managing Front-End Dependencies with Bower
As I mentioned at the start of the chapter (and, for that matter, in its title), we’re going to use jQuery and Backbone.js in this project. So how do we include those dependencies? It seems like only yesterday that developers were manually downloading JavaScript libraries from the Web. Well, okay, that’s still common. But it’s not nearly as common as it was, thanks to front-end package managers inspired by npm—most notably Bower.
With Bower, we can install JavaScript libraries for web applications via the command line, keep those libraries up to date, and automatically ensure that their dependencies are met. For example, Backbone relies on Underscore, so when we use Bower to install Backbone, Bower ...
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