fstab/bower repository overview

⁠docker-bower

Develop Bower⁠ projects without installing bower.

⁠About Bower

Bower⁠ is a dependency management tool often used in Web front-end development. For example, the Polymer project⁠ uses Bower⁠ as its recommended installation tool.

If you check out a Bower⁠-based project from GitHub⁠, it will typically contain a bower.json file which lists the dependencies for that project. In order to download these dependencies, you run

bower install

which will create a sub-folder bower_components and download the dependencies there.

⁠About docker-bower

If you want to play with a Bower⁠-based project like Polymer⁠, you might not want to install Bower⁠ and all its dependencies on your system. With docker-bower you can isolate the environment in a Docker⁠ container and install all dependencies there. Once you are done, remove the container, and your system stays clean.

⁠Run from Docker Hub

A pre-built image is available on Docker Hub⁠. It can be run as follows:

1. Make sure you have your Bower⁠-based project in a directory like /path/to/my-project, and it contains the file /path/to/my-project/bower.json

2. Run a docker container from that image, and map /path/to/my-project into that container (replace /path/to/my-project with the path to your project).

   MY_PROJECT="/path/to/my-project"
   docker run -v "$MY_PROJECT:/home/bower/workspace" -t -i fstab/bower
   

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The container will spawn a bash shell that you can use to run Bower⁠ commands (like bower install --save for adding new bower components), and it runs a HTTP server on port 8000 for viewing the project.

⁠Build from Source

1. Make sure Docker⁠ is installed.

2. Check out docker-bower from GitHub⁠

   git clone https://github.com/fstab/docker-bower.git
   

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3. Build the docker image

   cd docker-bower
   docker build -t="fstab/bower" .
   

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