bower-package-nodejs

This is a NodeJS module for getting information about Bower packages from the Bower registry, which is a REST API. It can be used to search for packages, list all packages, and check if a package exists. The package written in JavaScript.

Features

• Search packages
• List packages (All packages, or in chunks)
• Internal cache feature to reduce the number of requests
• Check package exists and name availability

Example

Import the module:

const { searchPackage, listPackages, packageExists } = require("./bower-package");

Search and get the results:

searchPackage("jquery").then((results) => {
    console.log("Search results: " + results.length);

    // Iterate over the results
    results.forEach((result) => {
        console.log(result);
    });
});

Get the list of all packages:

listPackages().then((packages) => {
    console.log("List of packages: " + packages.length);

    // Iterate over the results
    packages.forEach((package) => {
        console.log(package);
    });
});

Get the list of packages and chunk them into arrays of 20 packages:

listPackages(20).then((chunks) => {
    console.log("List of chunks: " + chunks.length)
    console.log("List of packages: " + chunks.reduce((sum, chunk) => sum + chunk.length, 0));

    // Iterate over the chunks
    chunks.forEach((chunk) => {
        console.log(chunk);

        // Iterate over the packages in the chunk
        // chunk.forEach((package) => {
        //     console.log(package);
        // });
    });
});

Check a package exists:

packageExists("jquery").then((exists) => {
    console.log("Package exists: " + exists)
});

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