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title: "Bower"
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ring: hold
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quadrant: tools
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[Bower](https://bower.io/) is a package manager for frontend resources such as JavaScript libraries and CSS frameworks. Compared to [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/), it has a somewhat different approach to loading and resolving the packages, resulting in a smaller and cleaner folder structure.
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In small web projects, this approach is good and sufficient, but larger projects will need more dependencies such as task runners or testing frameworks, which are not available through Bower.
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As most of the frontend libraries are also available through npm, it's not surprising that we ask ourselves why Bower is still needed.
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At AOE, we decided to use npm as the only package manager to avoid having multiple tools doing similar things.
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Developers only need to deal with one solution, which makes the project easier to maintain.
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