Loading Handlebars using bower

[niki4810]

Hi,

In my current project I download all 3rd part libraries and their dependencies using bower.

I noticed that for handlebars.js, the main library file does not get distribute as a part of a repo as per the guidelines :https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js#installing

To get around this I modified my bower.json to directly point to the s3 server instance form where I can download the main js file. My config looks like this

{
    "name": "RMn",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "dependencies": {
       ...
        "handlebars" : "http://builds.handlebarsjs.com.s3.amazonaws.com/handlebars-v1.1.2.js",
       ...        
    }
}

This works perfectly fine for me, but I have a couple of problems requesting the file this way

1. The main handlebar.js file that gets downloaded has a weird name of index.js
2. I am not sure if the s3 url is final or is subjected to change, in which case, I would need to edit my bower.json file every time.

Has anyone used bower to fetch handlerbars ? if so could you please share the bower.json config for the same.

Thanks,

Nikhil

[kpdecker]

The canonical bower version is here: https://github.com/components/handlebars.js

Leaving this bug open to update the installing docs to reference this.

[niki4810]

@kpdecker Thanks for sharing the link. This does not look like an official repo for handlebars (or may be it is, not sure), is this repo in sync with the main handlebars repo ?

[kpdecker]

This is the official bower version for bower. I have the release of that scripted with the release to the various other release steps so this should always have the latest released version.

https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js#releasing

[niki4810]

@kpdecker Thanks :)

[kpdecker]

Released in 1.2.0

[wesleycho]

A suggestion - could that repository be registered onto Bower so that when someone runs bower install, it would automatically be fetched instead of this one?

[kpdecker]

$ bower search handlebars
Search results:

    handlebars git://github.com/components/handlebars.js

[wesleycho]

I realized that a little after making that comment (except I found it by going through a few pages here) - I think changing one of the top two links from those registered repositories to point towards components/handlebars would be ideal, so it's more obvious on first go. That website is my go-to when I need to quickly find a library I want, since it points directly to the repo in question so I can check the tagged versions.