Deprecate bower

[infacq]

I think laravel has provide enough tools beside npm also is basic requirement for elixir. Why not just use npm for dependency management

[jadjoubran]

I'm already using npm for node.js dependency management. However I'm using bower for front-end dependency management because bower offers a flat dependency tree which is much more convenient for front end.
For more information on the difference between npm and bower http://stackoverflow.com/a/18652918/1599122

Are you suggesting to use npm with browserify?

[infacq]

i thought this has solve the problem

https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-material

to manage the depedencies. Correct me if I'm wrong

[jadjoubran]

If you want to use npm to resolve your dependencies you need to use a tool such as browserify. So it's not only about this package (npmjs.com/package/angular-material) you have to install all the front-end dependencies using npm and then loading them with browserify.
But then again the difference between npm and bower would mainly be the dependency resolution (bower has aflat dependency tree which is much more convenient for front-end development)

[infacq]

thanks for your reply. This conversation has drive me to get deeper into Browserify. I feel singlelify all the js file under browserify is really awesome. Laravel has update their elixir library which can manage all the npm dependencies. You should check it out. Thanks brother

[jadjoubran]

Will do, thanks a lot!