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We will look into setting up Bower support for the templates. Do you have any resources that could help us down that path? I haven't set anything like that up before. Thanks!

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@ironsummitmedia It's quite simple, you can read about it here:

http://bower.io/docs/creating-packages/

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We'll be adding Bower support in the near future once we figure out how to separate out our packages on a per template basis. Thanks for the feedback!

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@ironsummitmedia You can provide separate package for each template, can I help on this in any way?

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I am going to try to tackle this myself since it's my first experience writing Bower packages, but I will update this issue once I am taken a stab at it and you can be the first to test it and give some feedback!

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@ironsummitmedia You may also want to take a look at Grunt which is a tool mainly used with bower to build the packages, here is a good article about how they work together:

http://blog.elenakolevska.com/using-grunt-with-laravel-and-bootstrap/

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Thanks for the additional info. Would you be interested on helping set this up? I am reading through as much as I can but it is all over my head to be honest, I don't really understand it. Send me an email at [email protected] and we can try to set something up if you'd be interested.

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I've been doing a lot of research and playing around with Bower and Grunt, and it's apparent that turning the Start Bootstrap templates into Bower components isn't really a fit. Bower components are more of a CSS or JavaScript plugin that people will use within their project, webapp, etc. The templates and themes on Start Bootstrap are more robust.

At the bare minimum, every Start Bootstrap template uses jQuery and Bootstrap. Putting a template alongside these two tools within a bower_components folder doesn't really make sense then.

The themes and templates on Start Bootstrap are more scaffolds than a component (or set of components). I am looking at scaffold generators like Yeoman and Brunch. Grunt and Bower will still be used, but this is just taking it a step further.

That being said, this issue led me on a knowledge-train that led me to Yeoman and Brunch via Grunt and Bower. Now that I understand all of these technologies, I will be working on creating Yeoman generators for each Start Bootstrap template, followed by creating Brunch skeletons for each template.

My grand vision here is that developers would be able to scaffold an entire project with one little Yeoman or Brunch command - which would install the entire theme, and all of the components that the theme uses.

Hopefully this makes sense. I'll be playing around with Yeoman and Brunch, and in time I'll release Yeoman and Brunch generators for all of the templates!

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@davidtmiller did you ever achieve this goal? I have been trying to combine yeoman webapp-generator with startbootreap agency theme and failing to get it to work properly

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