bower – Manage bower packages with bower

Synopsis

• Manage bower packages with bower

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name -		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 - / required		The base path where to install the bower packages
production boolean 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 not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Michael Warkentin (@mwarkentin)

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