Bowerball

Bowerball is a little node program to stream tarballs over HTTP from bower component files. But it's all zyll's fault really.

It is more a proof of concept than a “enterprise-ready” thing that you should put in production right now. That say, you're welcome to hack and send pull-requests.

Setup

Start by installing the npm package with npm install bowerball.

Alternatively, if you intend to code, grab the code:

$ git clone git://github.com/oz/bowerball.git
$ cd bowerball
$ npm install 
$ node index.js

Example

Once installed, start the bowerball server in a console, by calling bowerball.

$ bowerball
Server ready, listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080

In another term, create a sample bower component file:

$ cat > foo.json
{
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "~1.8.3"
  }
}
^D

And let bowerball serve that to you:

$ curl -sX POST -d @foo.json http://localhost:8080/ | tar -tv
drwxr-xr-x 1000/1000         0 2012-12-20 17:52 components/jquery/
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000       591 2012-12-20 15:56 components/jquery/composer.json
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000       366 2012-12-20 17:52 components/jquery/component.json
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000     93637 2012-12-20 15:56 components/jquery/jquery.min.js
-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000    275529 2012-12-20 15:56 components/jquery/jquery.js
$

License

Copyright © 2012 Arnaud Berthomier. Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for further details.