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I was using jsdiff though npm, moved my tests into a headless browser, and started using a different (inferior) diff library, because I couldn't find jsdiff in the bower package search for "diff".

Bower ranks search results in order of the number of stars on github, but since the repo used to publish jsdiff to bower is https://github.com/components/jsdiff instead of https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff, it shows up as 3 stars instead of 1,300+ stars and gets pushed down to the second page of results.

This issue seems to be a by product of the components framework asserting:

There are many packages managers... More than one for each language! And for each one you need a mirror repository with built *.js.
https://github.com/components/components#what-is-it

I think a more common pattern is to only check build in files for tagged releases, not fork the repo.

Initially I didn't think this was the same project after seeing the repo. There doesn't seem to be any documented connection to the official repository other than Kevin Decker being listed in the copyright notices.

Thanks for making jsdiff! Let me know if there is anything I can help out with.