In October 2017, Bower announced maintenance mode for their package manager. Their
official website encourages people to migrate to available alternatives. To quote Bower: “While Bower is maintained, we recommend using
Yarn and
Webpack or
Parcel for frontend projects
read how to migrate!”
Three years later, Bower is still available but is no longer considered as a dependency manager of choice by modern web projects. For instance, Angular and React discontinued Bower support in favor of NPM and Yarn. Microsoft created a separate library manager for quick migration:
Libman.
DevExtreme and
Web Reporting Bower packages are no longer available. While you can use Bower for previous versions (19.1 and older), we encourage you to migrate to modern package managers.
The following packages are available on NPM as an alternative:
Of course, you can also use Yarn to install these packages as well.
If you encounter issues during migration to NPM/Yarn, feel free to create a support ticket in the DevExpress
Support Center. We will be more than happy to assist in the migration process.
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The following free DevExpress product offers remain available. Should you have any questions about the free offers below, please submit a ticket via the
DevExpress Support Center at your convenience. We’ll be happy to follow-up.