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I'm planning to use WebJars (through Maven) instead of Bower for my projects.
What's the difference between the NPM, Bower and Classic flavors of WebJars?
My understanding is that since I used Bower, I should probably just use Bower WebJars since I can be sure that those artifacts will be available. Is that the right way to think about this?
Thanks, in advance, for the help.
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WebJars is simply taking the concept of a JAR and applying it to client-side libraries or resources. For example, the jQuery library may be packaged as a JAR and made available to your Spring MVC application. There are several benefits to using WebJars, including support for Java build tools such as Gradle and Maven.
WebJars are client-side web libraries (e.g. jQuery & Bootstrap) packaged into JAR (Java Archive) files. Explicitly and easily manage the client-side dependencies in JVM-based web applications. Use JVM-based build tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle, sbt, ...) to download your client-side dependencies.
It depends on where you want the source artifacts to come from. Classic WebJars usually come from a binary distribution of a library. Bower and NPM WebJars come from their respective sources.
The Classic WebJars are manually created and published by WebJar contributors. Bower and NPM WebJars can be published by anyone.
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