completely removing bower components from git and instead making it a postinstall script

(mostly for bluemix's benefit)

Author: nfriedly

.gitignore

@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ doc/
 examples/static/webpack-bundle.js
 examples/node_modules/
 dist/*.js
-examples/static/bower_components/jquery/external/
-examples/static/bower_components/jquery/src/
+examples/static/bower_components/

examples/package.json

@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "description": "Examples showing the IBM Watson Speech Javascript SDK in action.",
   "scripts": {
-    "start": "node server.js"
+    "start": "node server.js",
+    "postinstall": "bower install"
   },
+  "cacheDirectories": ["node_modules", "static/bower_components"],
   "dependencies": {
+    "bower": "^1.8.0",
     "defaults": "^1.0.3",
     "dotenv": "^4.0.0",
     "express": "^4.13.3",

examples/readme.md

@@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ Prerequisite
 
 * IBM Watson Speech to Text service credentials - see http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/getting_started/gs-credentials.shtml
 * Node.js OR Python
+* [Bower](https://bower.io/) for installing client-side dependencies
 
 
 Setup - Node.js
 ---------------
 
-1. `cd` into the `examples/` directory and run `npm install` to grab dependencies
+1. `cd` into the `examples/` directory and run `npm install` to grab dependencies (this automatically runs `bower install`)
 2. edit `tts-token.js` and `stt-token.js` to include your service credentials (or create a `.env` file)
 3. run `npm start`
 4. Open your browser to http://localhost:3000/ to see the examples.
@@ -26,10 +27,11 @@ Setup - Node.js
 Setup - Python
 --------------
 
-1. `cd` into the `examples/` directory and run `pip install watson_developer_cloud flask` (or `easy_install...`) to grab dependencies
-2. edit `server.py` to include your service credentials (or create a `.env` file)
-3. run `python server.py`
-4. Open your browser to http://localhost:5000/ to see the examples.
+1. `cd` into the `examples/` directory and run `pip install watson_developer_cloud flask` (or `easy_install...`) to install python dependencies
+2. run `bower install` to install client-side dependencies
+3. edit `server.py` to include your service credentials (or create a `.env` file)
+4. run `python server.py`
+5. Open your browser to http://localhost:5000/ to see the examples.
 
 
 Notes