brew install node
npm install bower
bower install jquery

You could just install jQuery from npm and bypass bower

@jonnyserra Not if you want it for the frontend

Use webpack and yarn :P

Or you know like @Artemix said just use the CDN that millions of users already have cached in their browsers....

Or just don't use jQuery

npm install -g npm
is magic

@envolt totally! Black magic!

Oh god JavaScript framework wars.

@Paralax where have you been? npm works fine for frontend nowadays. I think bower is actually dying

@ismaelga Ofc it works, but is it good practice?

Has anyone tried yarn?

@Paralax yes it is. New versions of npm does flat dependencies (the reason to use bower in the past). I'm not sure but if you check some bootstrap/starter-kit repos for React you see npm is used and not bower. Probably the same for angular ones

@easy I played with it a bit. I think there are still some bugs in place and missing features like local dependencies or git dependencies. Highly recommend it, when those things are sorted out