Replace bower-asset with npm-asset

[karelvasicek]

Related f.ex. to hiqdev/asset-packagist#163 and especially to hiqdev/asset-packagist#163 (comment) .

composer update results to some packages downgrade.

Question is if/how it's related to https://bower.io/, it (as stated there) is maintained, but f.ex.

• it's officially stated that "...we recommend using Yarn and Vite..."
• package search on https://bower.io/search/ does not work at all

All packages required by Yii2 are available as npm-asset/package and versions seem to be correct in that case.

[schmunk42]

Just replacing bower with npm might lead to problems, since both services work very differently.
In a nutshell: Bower was actually made in a way how we use it in Yii 2 for (pre-bundled) frontend assets, npm is more meant to be build with ie. webpack, although most packages have dist files, but it's not required. Also the dependencies may vary a lot.

I'd strongly recommend to wait for a fix in asset-packagist.

@bizley @terabytesoftw A change from bower to npm might be an option for 2.2, but please not for 2.0.

[r-simlinger]

Is there any workaround?
Does not look like there will be someone wo will fix it from the asset-packagist side.