bower-install-lowest

install bower components using the lowest matching versions.

Install

npm install -g bower-install-lowest

Usecase

When developing a bower component...

If we use semver versioning correctly, we might not want to fix versions of dependencies to hard. We want to specify the minimal needed version and prevent breaking changes from being installed silently.

Example 2 >= 2.1.7

We want any 2.x version that is greater than, or equal to 2.1.7

So in development when we do a fresh setup, we might end up with version 2.7.50 without notice. In that case, it can happen, that we start to rely on features of that version without explicitly requiring it.

When our component is then installed in another project, this project might have a harder requirement to our dependency, lets say 2.2.6. This version might leak features that we're building upon and then break unexpectedly.

TL;DR

We want to use the lowest matching version of our bower dependencies in development, while allowing higher versions when our package is being used somewhere else.

Usage

bower-install-lowest [<options>]

Options

• -f, --force
  Ignore version of global bower
• -h, --help
  Show this help message
• -p, --production
  Do not install project devDependencies
• --verbose Display additional output
• -v, --version
  Output bower-install-lowest version
• --no-color
  Disable colors

LICENSE

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Jimdo GmbH

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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