how to install highcharts with bower

Question

I am starting a new Ember-CLI project. And I want to install HighCharts with bower.

How do I do this?

I have read two posts about this.

The first one tells me to:bower install highcharts.com

Unfortunately the install hangs and eventually crashes

The second post tells me to: bower install https://github.com/highslide-software/highcharts-release

But this only seems to install a bower.json and an index file... but no js files?

In this specific case, can I just manually place the highcharts.js into my own vendor folder... update brocfile and just forget bower for now? Is there any downside to this?

Answer 1

I have found that the unzipping of highcharts.com does take way longer than any other repo, but it should succeed eventually. There is also highcharts-release, which you mentioned. You should be able to just enter the following,

bower install highcharts-release

Once that installs you should have the files highcharts.js and highcharts.src.js at your disposal.

Try using the keyword -- highcharts-release instead of the full path.

highcharts-release contains way fewer files, which should resolve your issue.

If you use your own vendor folder, it will be harder to update to newer releases in the future, I would not recommend it unless using bower is really impossible, which is somewhat doubtful.