bower installs several files. why and how can I change it?

Question

I am using bower to install dependencies for my project(I know there is yeoman but I am using bower). After setting up component.json file, when I do bower install it instal

Answer 1

You can check out bower-installer.

bower list --path usually tells about the main js file in the package, which bower-installer conveniently picks up and exports only those files to your asset directories. You can then use this directory instead and ignore the bower_components dir.