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# bower – Manage bower packages with bower

- Synopsis
- Parameters
- Examples
- Status

## Synopsis

- Manage bower packages with bower

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
name - |  | The name of a bower package to install
offline boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Install packages from local cache, if the packages were installed before
path - / required |  | The base path where to install the bower packages
production boolean added in 2.0 | Choices: no ← yes | Install with --production flag
relative_execpath - added in 2.1 |  | Relative path to bower executable from install path
state - | Choices: present ← absent latest | The state of the bower package
version - |  | The version to be installed

## Examples

    - name: Install "bootstrap" bower package.
      bower:
        name: bootstrap

    - name: Install "bootstrap" bower package on version 3.1.1.
      bower:
        name: bootstrap
        version: '3.1.1'

    - name: Remove the "bootstrap" bower package.
      bower:
        name: bootstrap
        state: absent

    - name: Install packages based on bower.json.
      bower:
        path: /app/location

    - name: Update packages based on bower.json to their latest version.
      bower:
        path: /app/location
        state: latest

    # install bower locally and run from there
    - npm:
        path: /app/location
        name: bower
        global: no
    - bower:
        path: /app/location
        relative_execpath: node_modules/.bin

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Michael Warkentin (@mwarkentin)

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