AngularJS Essentials

Chapter 8
Installing packages
After finding the desired package, you just need to execute the following command
in order to download and install it:
bower install
To install the package, you just need to use this command with the package name
as follows:
bower install angular --save
The angular package will be downloaded from its Git repository and placed inside
the bower_components/ directory. With the --save option enabled, the bower.json
file will be updated.
We can check which packages are already installed in the application by means of
the following command:
bower list
This command needs to be executed within the application directory, and the result
will be shown in a list with the dependencies and versions of each package. This is
an opportunity to evaluate whether it is possible to update a package.
In order to update a package to its latest version, there is also an update command.
This will try to update the outdated package. However, if there are dependencies to
the outdated package, it will be kept:
bower update
To uninstall a package, we can follow the same installation procedure, just replacing
the command, as follows:
bower uninstall angularjs-file-upload --save
The package will be removed from the application's bower components directory
and also from the bower.json file.
Using packages
After we have installed a package, we need to update our index.html file in order
to include it in our application. The following code is an example where we included
the angular package in our project:
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