Which package service provides the repository for Bower?

Question

Behind the dependency manager for PHP Composer works with the PHP package archive service Packagist . So when I want to defind Zend Framework 2 as a package, my project depends on, I use the syntax developer/package :

composer.json

{
    "name": "Project Name",
    "description": "Project Description",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.23",
        "zendframework/zendframework": ">=2.3.2,<3.0.0",
        ...
    }
    ...
}

Then I run composer install and looks in the Packagist archive for the packges, I defined as dependencies.

Now the Bower :

I can define the dependencies in the bower.json and get them with bower init or load them directly with bower install <package> . In both cases the package can be defined as a GitHub address or any URL ( http://sld.tld/file.js ), but also in form of developer/package ( bower install angular/angular.js ) or even just package ( bower install jquery ).

What is Bower's "Packagist"? Which package service provides the package repository for Bower?

Answer 1

The mapping between the package name and the repository holding the package content is done by the Bower registry .
By default the Bower client will use the public Bower registry - http://bower.herokuapp.com .
To register a new package in the registry you need to use the bower register command as described here .

Answer 2

You create the package in GitHub by going into your GitHub repo and creating a release. This release number will be the number that will show up in the bower.json file when you do bower install --save . Bower expects you to use semver http://semver.org/ and will interpret your release numbers appropriately.

When you do bower register it will look for a match in the number between the GitHub repo and your bower.json file and warn you if they do not match.