Time for action – installing Bower

Perform the following steps to install Bower:

  1. If you are using Windows, open the command prompt. If you are using OS X or Ubuntu, open the terminal. For installing Bower, Git is required. Please ensure that Git is downloaded and installed (https://git-scm.com/downloads).
  2. Run the following command:
    npm install -g bower

    Note

    If you are having trouble installing Bower in Ubuntu, run the command with sudo.

What just happened?

We have just installed Bower on the computer, which enables the bower command. The -g parameter that we included in the preceding command installs Bower globally, so that we are able to execute the bower command in any directory in the computer.

Bower commands

After installing Bower, we have access ...

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