Slim Bower Server

This is a PHP based implementation of a bower-server used by the excellent package manager Bower.

It's built using:

and currently configured OTB to use sqlite (Why? see below)

Overview

The original aim of this project was to get a server up running as fast as possible to evaluate the usage of Bower where I currently work for managing code dependencies between projects.

Since we already had an existing development PHP server available it made sense to use this rather than setting up a new VM with node.js, DB etc. If you've worked in corporate environments before you'll understand why.

It currently uses an sqlite database, but due to PHPActiveRecord being used it's very easy to switch to another database (see app/config.php).

Installation

Installation will vary depending upon your server configuration, but the basics are detailed below.

Checkout

> git clone https://github.com/indieisaconcept/slim-bower-server.git myproject
> cd myproject
> rm -rf .git (should you wish to add to your own version control)

Dependencies

Dependencies are managed using Composer.

> curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
> php composer.phar install

Usage

Ensure you update your .bowerrc either at a global or project level to use your custom server endpoint.

{
	...
	"endpoint": 'http://some.host.com.au'
	…
}

Create package

curl http://some.host.com.au/packages -v -F 'name=jquery' -F 'url=git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git'

Find package

curl http://some.host.com.au/packages/jquery
  {"name":"jquery","url":"git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git"}

Search package

curl http://some.host.com.au/packages/search/jquery
  [{"name":"jquery","url":"git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git"}, {"name":"jquery-ui","url":"git://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui.git"}]