Can I use peer dependencies?

[donaldpipowitch]

npm recently released support for peer dependencies, can I use them with Bower, too?

E.g. if I have a specific platform as a website like a CMS I want to download specific components for this host environment with Bower. Think of it like grunt is a host environment for grunt-plugins.

[sindresorhus]

I don't see any apparent benefit of this as Bower's dependency structure is flat.

If you specify jquery as a dep in your project and a jquery plugin as dep with a different jquery version as dep, you will already get a warning about it, just like npm peerDependencies, and the jquery version in your component.json will take precedence. Which means Bower's "dependencies" key is somewhat like a poor-mans peerDependencies.

[satazor]

I agree with @sindresorhus, going to close this out.

[donaldpipowitch]

Okay, thank you for your answers.