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Need consistent case-name for Chart/chart.js on NPM and Bower

See original GitHub issue

Please see: https://github.com/jtblin/angular-chart.js/pull/226

In short, Chart.js uses different “case” names for its library in Bower (“Chart.js”) vs NPM (“chart.js”).

This causes issues with other libraries using it as a dependency and on file systems (e.g. Linux) that are case-sensitive.

For example, when using Browserify on a Linux OS:

require("chart.js") will work when using NPM-based packages
require("Chart.js") will FAIL when using NPM-based packages
require("chart.js") will FAIL when using Bower-based packages
require("Chart.js") will work when using Bower-based packages

On OS systems where file case doesn’t matter (e.g. Mac OSX and I believe Windows), this will never surface as an issue as both OSes treat: Chart.js === chart.js

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:11 (5 by maintainers)

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BrokenEyesCodecommented, Nov 2, 2016

We got it to work with bower install chartjs --save After clearing out our caches, it put "chart.js": "chartjs#^2.3.0", in our bower.json file. but that could be unique to our Artifiactory system.

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jantimoncommented, Nov 25, 2015

Should you rename it - please also stop calling it .js as RequireJs handles .js files differently than modules.