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Is bower really dead? #858

Open Lenny32 opened 7 years ago

Lenny32 commented 7 years ago

Hello,

I read on the web on many website that people where starting to migrate to npm and removing the support from bower (package Selectivity.js for example). I was wondering if it was possible to use npm like bower instead directly from visual studio 2015 Update3?

Best regards,

Lenny

scottaddie commented 7 years ago

As to whether Bower is dead, it depends upon who you ask. npm is treated as a first-class citizen in VS 2015; however, you will not find a dialog like NuGet Package Manager or Bower Package Manager. You may find the NPM Task Runner extension useful.

mlorbetske commented 7 years ago

@madskristensen any thoughts on this?

madskristensen commented 7 years ago

Bower is not dead in the sense that it is still being used by thousands of projects around the world

Lenny32 commented 7 years ago

@madskristensen I understand you answers and I am agreeing with you. I just found many articles on the web talking about this and that people are moving to npm for different reasons. @scottaddie NPM task Runner is not answering to the need as it do not allow us to install packages (from what I am experiencing).

I just want to be sure that the packages will stay on Bower and not disappear slowly for new platforms.