Package Manager: Bower vs jspm

Question

How is Bower different than jspm? Can Bower provide jspm functionality about SystemJS universal module loader?

Answer 1

To add on to Capaj's answer:

If you have a small project, go with jspm anyway! It's the future! (who knows, things change, but this is a good bet).

Small project use:

$ jspm install jquery

then in your HTML:

then in main.js:

import $ from 'jquery'; // ES6-style import
// do whatever with jQuery here.

You can use CommonJS, AMD, or ES 6 module formats. JSPM auto-detects them in your files (you can't mix and match in the same file though).

var $ = require('jquery'); // CommonJS-style import
// do whatever with jQuery here.

define(['jquery'], function($) { // AMD-style import
    // do whatever with jQuery here.
})