Ember.js Cookbook

Dependency management

Let's look at dependency management and how we can use it in our Ember projects.

How to do it...

Bower is used for dependency management for Ember CLI. Bower is a frontend tool that is used to help fetch and install packages that you might need.

1. The bower.json file is located in the root folder of your project. It contains all the dependencies. Let's say that we want to install the Bootstrap library:

   $ bower install bootstrap --save
   

   This command will install bootstrap in the bower_components folder and save the package information in the bower.json file.

   Tip

   Ember add-ons

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