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bower - Manage bower packages with bower¶

New in version 1.9.

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- Status

Synopsis ¶

Manage bower packages with bower

Options ¶

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
name	no			The name of a bower package to install
offline	no		yes no	Install packages from local cache, if the packages were installed before
path	yes			The base path where to install the bower packages
production (added in 2.0)	no		yes no	Install with --production flag
relative_execpath (added in 2.1)	no			Relative path to bower executable from install path
state	no	present	present absent latest	The state of the bower package
version	no			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.

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