Bowerball is a little node program to stream tarballs over HTTP from bower
component files. This means, that you POST a Bower-compatible component.json
file, and the program will build, and stream back a tarball of the
corresponding components directory.
I would blame alcohol, but this is really another of zyll's weird ideas that I could quickly hack. It is more a proof of concept than a enterprisy thing: it's simple, it just works, so I hope it can be of some use. :)
That said, you're welcome to hack and send pull-requests. A running instance is available on Heroku: http://bowerball.herokuapp.com
To test it from the your command-line, run:
curl -sX POST -d '{"dependencies": {"jquery":"~2.0", "ember":"~1.0"} }' \
http://bowerball.herokuapp.com/ | tar -tv
Start by installing the npm package with npm install bowerball, and run
node node_modules/bowerball/index.js
Alternatively, if you intend to code, grab the code:
$ git clone git://github.com/oz/bowerball.git
$ cd bowerball
$ npm install
$ node index.js
Once installed, start the bowerball server in a terminal by calling
bowerball. It takes no arguments, the only movable part is the listening
port throught the PORT environment variable.
$ bowerball
Server ready, listening on http://0.0.0.0:8080
In another terminal, create a sample bower component file:
$ cat > foo.json
{
"dependencies": {
"jquery": "~2.0",
"ember": "~1.0"
}
}
^D
And let bowerball serve that to you:
$ curl -sX POST -d @foo.json http://localhost:8080/ | tar -tv
drwx------ 0 45895 45895 0 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 16689 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/jquery-migrate.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 733 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/composer.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 783 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/component.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 7087 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 240196 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/jquery.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 336 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/README.md
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 6 Apr 19 18:46 components/jquery/.gitignore
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 144 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/package.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 83095 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/jquery.min.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 226 Apr 19 19:07 components/jquery/bower.json
drwx------ 0 45895 45895 0 Apr 19 19:07 components/handlebars/
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 9636 Apr 19 18:48 components/handlebars/handlebars.runtime.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 431 Apr 19 19:07 components/handlebars/component.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 71956 Apr 19 18:48 components/handlebars/handlebars.js
drwx------ 0 45895 45895 0 Apr 19 19:07 components/ember/
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 562 Apr 19 18:48 components/ember/composer.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 191968 Apr 19 19:07 components/ember/ember.min.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 440 Apr 19 19:07 components/ember/component.json
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 770333 Apr 19 19:07 components/ember/ember.js
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 45 Apr 19 19:07 components/ember/.gitignore
-rw------- 0 45895 45895 222 Apr 19 18:48 components/ember/package.json
$
And just like that, you got that pesky node dependency off your super successful Django on Rails application... ;)
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