component is ambiguous
Component is tool for package and build management for the frontend. It's written in JavaScript and you can run it with Node.js.
Components are modular frontend components which can be used with component to build web applications.
http://github.com/component is a GitHub organization which contains many components.
You can join our IRC channel on freenode: #components
http://component.github.io is the official registry you can add your own components via the crawler, see 1.0.0 changelog There is also a GitHub Wiki which is kind of the old registry.
[component.io] on Stack Overflow
@componentIO on Twitter
You should use component.io in a general context to avoid disambiguation.
https://github.com/components is a GitHub organization which support many package manager like npm, Bower, Component, Jam, volo, ...
https://github.com/components/components
Run-time Component System for structuring HTML5-based Rich Clients by
Ralf S. Engelschall
Bower has now their own bower.json
file. But in earlier versions they used
component.json.
Some properties of bower.json and component's component.json have the
same name, but there is no scripts property, so bower.json is not compatible
with component.
Web Components are a collection of standards which are working their way through the W3C. They enable truly encapsulated and reusable components for the web. And if you think HTML5 changed the web, wait to see what Web Components will do.