sails-generate-bower-gulp

A bower generator for use with the Sails command-line interface. It will download bower packages to ./bower_components and then move them to ./assets/vendor folder. Now using main-bower-files for moving files in the boser.json main section.

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Installation

Certain generators are installed by default in Sails, but they can be overridden. Check the Sails docs for information on installing generator overrides / custom generators.

$ npm install -g sails-generate-bower-gulp

Usage

New project setup

$ sails new myProject              # create a new sails project
$ cd myProject
$ sails generate bower             # generate/modify the necessary files
$ npm install                      # install modules
$ bower install bootstrap --save   # install required bower packages
$ sails lift                       # lift the server

Go to http://localhost:1337 and view page source, and you'll see the CSS and JS files injected into the template.

In a node script

var path = require('path');
var sailsgen = require('sails-generate');
var scope = {
	rootPath: path.resolve(__dirname)
};
sailsgen(require('sails-generate-bower-gulp'), scope, function (err) {
	if (err) throw err;

	// It worked.
});

Credits

• The Sails, the Grunt and the Bower, by Matthieu Rondeau
• sails-generate-gulp-bower, by Paul Avery

Questions?

See FAQ.md.

More Resources

• Stackoverflow
• #sailsjs on Freenode (IRC channel)
• Twitter
• Professional/enterprise
• Tutorials

License

MIT © 2014 Karnith

Sails is free and open-source under the MIT License.