permanently ignore a dependency with bower

Question

I am downloading angular, angular-bootstrap and bootstrap with bower. Bootstrap has a dependency on jquery which is installed in the process. But i don't need it in my project as i am only using bootstrap's css.

So i tried to permanently remove the dependency on jquery with

bower uninstall jquery --save

It's uninstalling jquery, but the next time i make bower update, it's downloaded again.

Is there a way to tell bower to permanently skip a dependency ?

edit: I wish there was something like this:

"resolutions": {
    "jquery": "no, thanks"
}

Answer 1

Pull request #1394 added official support for this feature and is present in bower version 1.6.3 and later. Check your version with bower -v, and run npm install -g bower to upgrade.

For reference, please see the .bowerrc official specification document. If this doesn't work for you, please file an issue with bower because it is a bug.

We use it like this in our .bowerrc such as the following:

{
  "ignoredDependencies": [
    "bootstrap",
    "bootstrap-sass",
    "bootstrap-sass-official"
  ]
}