no need to say you're new to X: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/296391/11107541. I also removed the detail about the asker knowing Rails, because that didn't become a relevant detail in any of the top answers.

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Difference between Grunt, NPM, and Bower ( packagepackage.json vs bower.json )

I'm new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :).
I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I'm familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile)

Question: whenWhen I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?

Difference between Grunt, NPM and Bower ( package.json vs bower.json )

I'm new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :).
I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I'm familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile)

Question: when I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?

Difference between Grunt, NPM, and Bower (package.json vs bower.json)

When I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?

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I'm new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :).
I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I'm familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile)

Question: when I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?

I'm new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :).
I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I'm familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile)

Question: when I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?

I'm new to using npm and bower, building my first app in emberjs :).
I do have a bit of experience with rails, so I'm familiar with the idea of files for listing dependencies (such as bundler Gemfile)

Question: when I want to add a package (and check in the dependency into git), where does it belong - into package.json or into bower.json?

From what I gather,
running bower install will fetch the package and put it in /vendor directory,
running npm install it will fetch it and put it into /node_modules directory.

This SO answer says bower is for front-end and npm is for backend stuff.
Ember-app-kit seems to adhere to this distinction from the first glance... But instructions in gruntfile for enabling some functionality give two explicit commands, so I'm totally confused here.

Intuitively I would guess that

npm install --save-dev package-name would be equivalent to adding the package-name to my package.json
bower install --save package-name might be the same as adding the package to my bower.json and running bower install?

If that is the case, when should I ever install packages explicitly like that without adding them to the file that manages dependencies (apart from installing command line tools globally)?