bower installation does not contain dist directory

[jshanley]

The dist/ directory is listed in your .gitignore file.

When installing with bower install chosen, the repo is pulled down, and it does not contain the dist/ folder.

I am assuming this is where the plugin actually is. Without that folder, there's no real point in having a bower package. Am I missing something?

[jshanley]

sorry, dupe of #1509

[stof]

Teh bower package is not official either. It was registered by someone else, and we requested its removal

[tjschuck]

Chosen does not support command-line bower install chosen installation. This is because the repo does not contain the compiled sources, and bower does not currently support adding a post-install/build step.

However, you can specify that you'd like to use the release ZIP, which includes the compiled and minified sources.

Either install from the command line with

$ bower install https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/releases/download/v1.1.0/chosen_v1.1.0.zip

or add Chosen to your own project's bower.json file, like:

{
  "name": "my-project",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "1.11.0",
    "chosen": "https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen/releases/download/v1.1.0/chosen_v1.1.0.zip"
  }
}

See #1509, #1472, and #1333 for more info.