Nuget package has 'restore packages on build' , what has bower, grunt or node

Question

I have the bower_components (8MB) in my client\app folder. I have the node_modules folder (72MB) in client folder.

My free subversion hosting is just 50 MB. That should be normally not a problem not uploading binaries, packages etc... just the source code.

Just like with nuget packages I do not commit them to subversion. Because they cost too much space. But nuget package manager offers a feature called 'restore nuget packages on build' When this feature is enabled in my Visual Studio a .nuget.exe is created (1,5MB) This .exe file I do commit to make it available to other devs that they can also restore the nuget package when they rebuild the solution they downloaded.

Is there a similar mechanism for bower_components and node_modules?

I mean there is the package.json for the node_modules and the bower_components has the bower.json one level up in the folder structure.

Should it not be possible somehow when some else check out my source code from subversion (no node_modules or bower_components just the .json files) that a mechanism like maybe grunt is running a restore task for node_modules and bower_components

Is that somehow possible or does there already exist a solution in front of me :P ?

Answer 1

They would just need to run npm install and bower install in their terminal to get the files.