Packaging of web apps: bower, yeoman...

[olivier sallou <osallou@debian.org>]

Hi,

I'd like to know if some developper already packaged web apps using bower/yeoman. Those tools are more and more popular in web development to get web related libraries and , with Grunt, concatenate/minify/obscorate/... used libraries.

The issue is, like npm, maven or other tools, they download resources from internet to create a local structure of file (js, css, ...) used later on for minification etc... This is against Debian policy for packaging (getting files from Internet).

We can of course disable from upstream source the download of resources, to use local packaged libraries, but this does not give to bower for later postprocessing the expected directory structure.

So I wonder what others usually do for those apps (if any have already  packaged such web apps).

Thanks

Olivier