The Bootstrap JavaScript components are great for non-Bootstrap projects. They do one thing well, are well written, and self-contained. However, you may not want to include the whole js build from Bootstrap just for one or two plugins, let alone the entire Bootstrap repo in your bower_components. Keeping individual files up to date manually and including minified version can be a chore.
bootstrap-js-components is a bower package that contains just the JavaScript components, in individual files, both in source form and minified with source maps. It provides every bootstrap version since 2.2.0.
Install via bower:
bower install bootstrap-js-components#<version>Note: always install a specific Boostrap version number, which will look like v3.1.1 (note the v prefix). This is generally good practice for dependency management anyway, and fits with the recommended practice of checking in front-end dependencies.
Reference the relevant components:
<script src="bower_components/boostrap-js-components/dist/dropdown.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/boostrap-js-components/dist/modal.js"></script>This repository is mainly a set of tooling to allow it to easily update with Boostrap releases. If you notice there is a release missing, please open an issue with the release version and I'll get to it as soon as I can.
If you just want the files, you can also fork or clone the repository and build it manually:
git clone https://github.com/roryf/bootstrap-js-components.git
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd bootstrap
git checkout v<version>
cd ..
npm install
gruntThis will build the specified <version>, or replace this with master to buld the latest from the Bootstrap repo.
If you want to fork the repo and keep it up to date yourself, use the ./bin/update script to build any missing releases from the local repo and then git push --tags to push them to your fork. If the script fails for any reason, ./bin/reset will reset the Bootstrap submodule to master.