bower
v1.8.14
npmPackage manager for the web — client-side dependency resolution.
SPS
Days since commit
Open issues
90-day SPS survival curve
Last commit was 1290 days ago. Healthy packages average a commit every 12 days.
Primary maintainer @primary-maintainer has not pushed to any public repo in 68 days.
No OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, or corporate backing detected.
95% of issues older than 90 days have no response. Industry average is 23%.
Fork-to-star ratio is 0.10 — above 0.25 indicates community has diverged from main project.
OSSF Scorecard dropped 3.0 points in the last 90 days. Last CVE: 2240 days ago.
Maintainer profiles
Bower Maintainer
@bower-maintainer
- Last commit
- 1290d ago
- Public repos
- 18
- Sponsor
- None
AI Assessment
bower was deprecated in favour of npm and modern bundlers. Remaining usage typically indicates legacy front-end stacks. Migration path is well documented toward webpack or Vite with npm-managed assets.
Suggested replacements
Actively maintained alternative with strong community adoption.
Migration effort
Based on typical bower → npm workspaces migrations in similar codebases. Actual effort depends on custom formatting logic.
Alert history for this package
- May 11, 202645 → 22Tier changed to at-risk after SPS dropAt risk