How to install libraries without composer in drupal 8

Question

In drupal 8, I am encountering modules that require libraries to be installed by Composer. However, I was wondering if I could skip the composer part and just install the libraries by hand.

Would I ever be able to do this?

(I have never gotten Composer to work)

Answer 1

Just extract the library at /libraries.

For colorbox, you should have root/libraries/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-min.js

But this way you miss the main purpose of composer cause it won't be possible to update all the dependence automatically.