node-bpac

Pack your bower_components as *.tgz files for version control and easy deploys

This module is based off of the pac module from mikefrey.

Why?

Relying on the availability of a third party service when deploying has a tendency to cause headaches, but committing the raw source of third party components makes for messy changesets that can kill the ability to do a proper code review.

Installation

npm install -g bpac

Usage

From a command prompt, running bpac from your project's root directory will package all of your bower_components into the .components directory.

Running bpac install from the same directory will unpack all archives in the .components directory into your bower_components directory.

Note: The directory property of your .bowerrc will be used if its set.

If your build/deploy system does not have access to bpac, you can use a script similar to the following:

mkdir -p bower_components
for f in .components/*.tgz; do tar -xzf $f -C bower_components/; done