Bower in 0.8.x

[thenanox]

Hello @stephenliberty ,

I was checking the code, and i really like the refactor you made to the code. Also i liked the new plugin system with events. Im starting to migrate to new version. :+1:

I noticed that bower is now used for dependency downloading. Although im happy with this decission, i dont know if something can be done to optimise the documentation generation. This is done every time docular is executed, and maybe it will be a good option to cache this dependencies before try to install them?

In my case, this is a problem because im behind a corporate NTLM proxy. Im able to make it work with cntlm, but i need bower dependencies not to be downloaded. Ill deliver them with my "grunt-personaldocular".

Maybe is it possible to make configurable the dependencies download? like adding a new option configuration and pass into loadDependencies function in dependencyHandler.js?

Thank you beforehand.

[stephenliberty]

I think that adding a config item that simply means "don't download dependencies - I'll provide them" would work just fine I think. Regarding optimization so things don't download each time, yes - that needs to be put on the list.. however, I'm more concerned about the possibility of a bad download or something and then someone is 'stuck' in a bad state unless they dig in and figure out why that's happening (if that makes any sense). Anyway, I'll tack this into the items to do this coming week.

[thenanox]

Ok id like that option to be implemented. If i get some time i might provide a pull request for the task

[stephenliberty]

OK - you're good to go. v0.8.4 respects a configuration param called "disableDependencyDownloads". Add this to the base of the config with a "true" and it will not download any dependencies. You'll have to copy your own in - probably by using something like grunt-copy, but as long as everything is where docular is expecting it'll work just fine. I'm going to close this - open it back up if you have problems.

[thenanox]

Im checking your solution. I was wondering if docular resources in resources/js, resources/img and resources/template should be moved into writeCore function, because those are dependencies copied from docular resources like resources/css, resources/less, etc.

So the option disables just the bower_components copy resources downloading.

Also the event CopyFiles is just emitted in dependencies downloaded option. I think this should be both ways, because plugins need to copy their files in both circustances

120 what do you think?