Install Bower components into two different directories?

Question

When using CSS and JS components, is it possible, or even, does it make sense to install them to different directories?

.
|-- app
    |-- scripts
        |-- com         


        

Answer 1

There is a node package called bower-installer that provides a single command for managing alternate install paths.

run npm install -g bower-installer

Set up your bower.json

{
  "name" : "test",
  "version": "0.1",
  "dependencies" : {
    "jquery-ui" : "latest"
  },
  "install" : {
    "path" : {
      "css": "src/css",
      "js": "src/js"
    },
    "sources" : {
      "jquery-ui" : [
        "components/jquery-ui/ui/jquery-ui.custom.js",
        "components/jquery-ui/themes/start/jquery-ui.css"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Then run bower-installer command.

This will install components/jquery-ui/themes/start/jquery-ui.css to ./src/css, etc