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community.general.bower – Manage bower packages with bower
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.bower.
Synopsis
- Manage bower packages with bower
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| name
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        The name of a bower package to install
         | 
     |
| offline
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Install packages from local cache, if the packages were installed before
         | 
     
| path
        
        path / required
         | 
      
        
        The base path where to install the bower packages
         | 
     |
| production
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Install with --production flag
         | 
     
| relative_execpath
        
        path
         | 
      
        
        Relative path to bower executable from install path
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        The state of the bower package
         | 
     
| version
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        The version to be installed
         | 
     
Examples
- name: Install "bootstrap" bower package.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap
- name: Install "bootstrap" bower package on version 3.1.1.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap
    version: '3.1.1'
- name: Remove the "bootstrap" bower package.
  community.general.bower:
    name: bootstrap
    state: absent
- name: Install packages based on bower.json.
  community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location
- name: Update packages based on bower.json to their latest version.
  community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location
    state: latest
# install bower locally and run from there
- npm:
    path: /app/location
    name: bower
    global: no
- community.general.bower:
    path: /app/location
    relative_execpath: node_modules/.bin
  Authors
- Michael Warkentin (@mwarkentin)
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/bower_module.html