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Two of the libraries I use in my single page application are moment and backgrid-moment-cell. I use bower to manage my front-end libraries and django-pipeline for asset packaging.

I'd like to use version 2.8.1 of moment, but backgrid-moment-cell requires version ~2.5.0. How can I get both version into my project?

Ray Shan
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Front-end development should use a single dependency because you want to minimize the amount of code your users need to download. Bower helps you to manage this, which is a major benefit of using it. You have a few options:

  • Manually namespace the modules then include both (really not recommended)
  • Use resolutions in bower.json, but you may introduce bugs:
"resolutions": {
    "moment": "2.8.1"
}
  • Ask the maintainer to bump bower dependency versions (recommended)
Ray Shan
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  • I think the suggestion to bump the dependency is the best. Although I do wish there was a way to handle dependencies on the frontend node-style where different libraries can load different versions. – Erik Aug 07 '14 at 07:26