Programmatically install with bower?

Question

I'm writing a grunt task and I want to install a dependency programmatically. However, I can't seem to figure out how to use their API.

This works just fine, but parsing the response is brittle because it uses the CLI:

grunt.util.spawn({ cmd: 'bower', args: ['install', '--save', '[email protected]:foo/bar.git'] }, function(none, message) { grunt.log.writeln(message); });

This does not work:

bower.commands.install.line(['--save', '[email protected]:foo/bar.git']) .on('end', function(data) { grunt.log.writeln(data); done(); }) .on('err', function(err) { grunt.log.fail(err); done(); });

I get the following error:

$ grunt my-task Running "my-task:default_options" (my-task) task Fatal error: Could not find any dependencies

What is the right way to do this?

Sindre Sorhus · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-09 12:15:54Z

The line() function expects the whole argv, so should be:

bower.commands.install.line(['node', 'bower', '--save', '[email protected]:foo/bar.git']);

However, you should rather just pass paths and options to the install() method directly:

bower.commands.install(['[email protected]:foo/bar.git'], {save: true});

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

Programmatically install with bower?

1 Answer 1

Comments

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

Comments

Related