Bower support ------------- Key: JBIDE-19795 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19795 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Feature Request Components: javascript Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha2 Reporter: Ilya Buziuk Assignee: Ilya Buziuk Labels: new_and_noteworthy Fix For: 4.3.0.Final Need to have initial [Bower|http://bower.io/] tools support: *The gist* Bower tooling should initially support several bower API commands : |Command||Description| | *bower init* |creates a *bower.json* file| |*bower install <package>*|installs packages to *bower_components* folder| |*bower uninstall <package>*|uninstalls a package locally from *bower_components* directory| |*bower update* |updates installed packages to their newest version according to *bower.json*| Basically, the main idea of the implementation is the following: Eclipse plugin that will execute *external* bower commands - implementation will fall back on *native* bower installation via *ILaunchConfiguration* Native bower tools must be preinstalled *The main questions & proposals:* 1. https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-playground is probably the best place for initial implementation of bower stuff (infrastructure / build etc.) 2. UI. should it be ILaunchShortcuts ("bower init" / "bower update" etc.) + launch configuration enabled for projects with js nature? 3. Implementation details: - the way of detecting bower? Should user point to it's installation dir and this location will be used for IExternalToolConstants.ATTR_LOCATION (windows case: *\user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\bower* ) - if bower was not detected / installed - "Error message with a link to the bower website with installation details depending on the platform"