How can I invoke npm on heroku command line (to install bower components)?

Question

Bower is for client side Javascript what npm is for the server side and reads a component.json file to recognize dependencies that should be fetched at deploy t

Answer 1

You can use bower directly like this

"dependencies": {
    "bower": "^1.7.9"
},
"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "sudo bower install --allow-root "
}