a manifest file that provide some useful info to Bower, like dependencies, ignored files, version and etc. This is similar to Node’s package.json or Ruby’s Gemfile.

bower.json

{
  "name": "ProjectName",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "authors": [
    "Chieh-Wen Yang <[email protected]>"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "private": true,
  "ignore": [
    "**/.*",
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "test",
    "tests"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "~2.1.1",
    "angular": "~1.2.19",
    "d3": "~3.4.9",
    "foundation": "5.3.0"
  }
}