Deploy to production system where bower is not available

[fdeberle]

Currently we are facing the following situation:

• SpBowerBundle is in use in a Symfony2 project -- (by following all steps from https://github.com/Spea/SpBowerBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/index.md, except step 7)
• Building everything locally on dev machines respectively on a build server (jenkins) works well (bower is installed)
• On production, SpBowerBundle also wants to run bower locally, what I do not want to install on a production server

Or is it really necessary to install node, npm and bower?

[Spea]

If you warming up the cache in production, this bundle needs bower to correctly create the json mapping. If you do not want to install bower in production, you need warm up the cache locally and move this to production (which may or may not work).

Are there any specific reasons why you don't want to install bower on the production server?

[fdeberle]

I simply prefer a more „defensive“ strategy for production systems: the less components, the less things to worry about. We have installed bower for the webserver user now, which works like expected.

Anyway, thanks for your answer!