permanently ignore a dependency with bower

Question

I am downloading angular, angular-bootstrap and bootstrap with bower. Bootstrap has a dependency on jquery which is installed in the process. But i don\'t need it in my proj

Answer 1

The above answers are correct but an additional solution is to use wiredep as explained in this answer:

grunt-bower-install: exclude certain components

After installing grunt-wiredep, you can add something similar to this to your Grunt.js to exclude jquery from being injected:

// Automatically inject Bower components into the app
wiredep: {
  options: {},
  app: {
    src: ['<%= my.app %>/index.html'],
    exclude: ['bower_components/jquery']
  }
},

Bower will still download jquery unfortunately but at least you can tell it not to be included in the HTML src.