community.general.bower – Manage bower packages with bower

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.bower.

Synopsis

  • Manage bower packages with bower

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
string
The name of a bower package to install
offline
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Install packages from local cache, if the packages were installed before
path
path / required
The base path where to install the bower packages
production
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Install with --production flag
relative_execpath
path
Relative path to bower executable from install path
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • latest
The state of the bower package
version
string
The version to be installed

Examples

- name: Install "bootstrap" bower package.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap

- name: Install "bootstrap" bower package on version 3.1.1.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap
    version: '3.1.1'

- name: Remove the "bootstrap" bower package.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap
    state: absent

- name: Install packages based on bower.json.
  community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location

- name: Update packages based on bower.json to their latest version.
  community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location
    state: latest

# install bower locally and run from there
- npm:
    path: /app/location
    name: bower
    global: no
- community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location
    relative_execpath: node_modules/.bin

Authors

  • Michael Warkentin (@mwarkentin)