This Gradle plugin allows you to declare client side dependencies in build.gradle from bower, npm, yarn or git and with a much clearer dependencies resolution model. This plugin queries the registries directly so it doesn’t require or install node, npm or bower.

Gradle 2.0

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.craigburke.gradle:client-dependencies:1.4.1'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.craigburke.client-dependencies'

Gradle 2.1 and higher

plugins {
    id 'com.craigburke.client-dependencies' version '1.4.1'
}

The plugin adds the following tasks to your build:

You can specify dependencies from different sources (npm, bower or git) and control which files are included in your project by using the DSL shown below.

1. Installs jquery from bower and into the location (src/assets/vendor/jquery) using the default copy settings

2. Installs bootstrap from npm and excludes the dependency jquery

3. Installs restangular from npm but doesn’t include any child dependencies

4. Changing the destination path using the into property. This is relative to the install path meaning this would install to the location src/assets/vendor/angular/modules.

5. Use the url property to use a github repo as a dependency source (expands to https://www.github.com/danedan/animate.css.git). A full URL reference any git repository will also work here.

6. The from property allows you to copy code only from a certain subfolder

7. Installs angular from Yarn’s registry