Local Components

If you develop your own front-end-code (so called “local components”), you can also publish them with BowerStatic.

First of all you have to create a bower_components directory for your local components:

config.add_bower_components('myapp:static/bower_components', local=True)

The local parameter indicates that the directory acts as fallback for your local components. This means that the local components can use all the available packages in the directory.

If you have created such a local bower_components directory, you can add one or more local components:

config.add_bower_component('myapp:static/my_component', version='1.0.0')

You can retrieve the version of your Pyramid application like this:

import pkg_resources

version = pkg_resources.get_distribution('myproject').version

Now you can include the added local components on your HTML page like any other component:

request.include('my_component')

This includes your front-end-code in the HTML page and all dependencies that are defined in the bower.json file.