Add a bower package

It would be very helpful to have a Bower package for installing PDF.js.

The steps for Bower registration are straightforward:

1. Create a bower.json to define the package, that would look something like this:

{
  "name": "PDF.js",
  "version": "0.8.477",
  "main": "./PDF.js",
  "ignore": [
    ".jshintrc",
    "**/*.txt"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "<name>": "<version>",
    "<name>": "<folder>",
    "<name>": "<package>"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "<test-framework-name>": "<version>"
  }
}

1. Register the package with

$ bower register <my-package-name> <git-endpoint>

Then eager users could install PDF.js with something like bower install PDF.js.

A couple caveats:

1. the Git tags should be kept up-to-date with the current version (i.e. tags must be pushed);
2. it would be most effective if a built version of PDF.js were deployed with each tag.

Cheers

[Snuffleupagus]

It would be awesome if you support it officially. Thanks.

It’s already supported, and has been for quite some time, please refer to https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#using-pdfjs-in-a-web-application. Note how the first search result on https://bower.io/search/?q=pdfjs links to https://github.com/mozilla/pdfjs-dist.

[mbtakanov]

The issue was closed when bower was not that popular at the time. But look at us now. Everyone is on bower and we can laugh on comments like “Who will ever use XXX from bower?”. It would be awesome if you support it officially. Thanks.