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Bower vs npm

A side-by-side look at Bower and npm. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Bower

Bower

Development

Bower is a package manager for front-end dependencies and assets in web applications. It allows developers to easily install and manage libraries like jQuery, Bootstrap, and Font Awesome. Bower keeps track of these assets and handles dependencies between them.

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npm

npm

Development

npm is a package manager for JavaScript that allows developers to share and reuse code packages. It hosts over 1.5 million packages and is the default package manager for Node.js.

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