Installing Bootstrap via Bower

Bower is a package management system for client-side programming. You can use Bower to install Bootstrap's source code and keep it up to date more easily. Initiate Bower by running the following command in your console:

bower init

Answer the questions like those shown in the following screenshot:

After the preceding steps, a bower.json file is created. Then run the following command in your console:

bower install bootstrap#4 --save-dev

The preceding command downloads Bootstrap to the bower_components folder. Notice that jQuery and Tether are also installed since Bootstrap depends on these libraries.

The --save-dev flag writes down Bootstrap as a devDependency into the bower.json file.