how to include a private local file in javascript project using bower

Question

i want to include a custom file as one of the bower dependency.

I am have the following bower.json

{
  "name": "xyz",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "sass-bootstrap": "~2.3.0",
    "requirejs": "~2.1.4",
    "modernizr": "~2.6.2",
    "jquery": "~1.9.1",
    "beautify": "file:/path/to/beautify.js"
  },

  "devDependencies": {}
}

But when i do bower install it gives error :

 bower beautify#*             ENOTFOUND Package file:/path/to/beautify.js not found

however when i open the same path in browser i get the right file. I have also checked the case sensitive of the path.

Now can any one tell me what error i am doing? Is there any thing wrong with the syntax?

Also tell me what if i want to add the same via bower cache. Where the global bower cache is stored in mac? And how can we register the url of private package so that i just need to put name of the package in bower.json and bower finds the file from the cache?

Answer 1

The code below didn't work for me using Bower 1.2.8 on Ubuntu.

"beautify": "/path/to/beautify.js"

What did work was using: "beautify": "./path/to/beautify.js". This way the path is pointing to the file relative from the directory where bower.json resides.

Answer 2

It should be just /relative/path/to/beautify.js. No 'file:/'.

"beautify": "/path/to/beautify.js"

Answer 3

If you have bower installed you can do this from the commandline

bower install ../beautify.js -S

Assuming the local repo is a directory next to your current directory. This is just a testing approach and should be an available repo for general use

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EDIT

It looks like you also need to tag your repo so you will pick up the latest changes too

git tag v0.0.2