Using bootstrap with bower

I finally ended using the following : bower install --save http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/bootstrap.zip

Seems cleaner to me since it doesn't clone the whole repo, it only unzip the required assests.

The downside of that is that it breaks the bower philosophy since a bower update will not update bootstrap.

But I think it's still cleaner than using bower install bootstrap and then building bootstrap in your workflow.

It's a matter of choice I guess.

Update : seems they now version a dist folder (see: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342), so just use bower install bootstrap and point to the assets in the dist folder

The css and js files are located within the package: bootstrap/docs/assets/

UPDATE:

since v3 there is a dist folder in the package that contains all css, js and fonts.

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Another option (if you just want to fetch single files) might be: pulldown. Configuration is extremely simple and you can easily add your own files/urls to the list.

There is a prebuilt bootstrap bower package called bootstrap-css. I think this is what you (and I) were hoping to find.

bower install bootstrap-css

Thanks Nico.