Jmeas Pls created RAVE-1100:
-------------------------------
Summary: Introduce Bower
Key: RAVE-1100
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAVE-1100
Project: Rave
Issue Type: Bug
Components: rave-portal
Reporter: Jmeas Pls
The problem:
https://github.com/apache/rave/blob/angular/rave-portal-resources/src/main/webapp/static/script/requireConfig.js#L22-L37
Why is this a problem:
By hardcoding versions we make it more difficult to work with versions of these
libraries. Bower, a client-side package manager, all but gives this to us for
free.
Using the ^ and ~ operators we get bug fixes/minor releases for free, and our
dependency tree, no matter how complex, is automatically solved for us. At the
moment we're just hoping that all of these versions play well together.
Better yet, updating our dependencies with Bower is as simple as running `bower
update`. To seal the deal we get great integration with a handful of free
services that make our lives easier like Travis for CI and David to keep track
of our dependencies.
Last but not least, we can move dependencies like Bootstrap out of the repo.
https://github.com/apache/rave/tree/angular/rave-portal-resources/src/main/webapp/static/css/bootstrap
because they don't need to be in there.
+1 to add Bower.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.2#6252)
