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bower - Manage bower packages with bower

New in version 1.9.

Synopsis

  • Manage bower packages with bower

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
The name of a bower package to install
offline
bool
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Install packages from local cache, if the packages were installed before
path
required
The base path where to install the bower packages
production
bool

(added in 2.0)
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Install with --production flag
relative_execpath
(added in 2.1)
Relative path to bower executable from install path
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • latest
The state of the bower package
version
The version to be installed

Examples

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

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

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

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

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

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

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Michael Warkentin (@mwarkentin)

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