Replace bower packages by NPM packages.

In the issue akveo/ng2-admin#162, search should be made to be sure of non regression.

.bowerrc

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "directory": "node_modules"
-}

.travis.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ install:
   - npm install -g npm@3
   - npm install -g webpack
   - npm install -g typescript
-  - npm install -g bower
 
   - npm install
 

Dockerfile

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/akveo/ng2-admin.git /var/www \
     && cd /var/www \
     && npm install --global rimraf \
     && npm run clean \
-    && npm install --global bower typings webpack webpack-dev-server typescript \
+    && npm install --global typings webpack webpack-dev-server typescript \
-    && bower install --allow-root \
     && npm install \
     && npm run prebuild:prod && npm run build:prod
 

bower.json

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "ng2-admin",
-  "version": "0.4.2",
-  "description": "Angular 2 and Bootstrap 4 Admin Template.",
-  "author": "akveo",
-  "homepage": "http://akveo.github.io/ng2-admin/",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "moduleType": [
-    "es6"
-  ],
-  "private": true,
-  "ignore": [
-    "**/.*",
-    "node_modules",
-    "test",
-    "tests"
-  ],
-  "dependencies": {
-    "Ionicons": "ionicons#~2.0.1"
-  }
-}

config/webpack.common.js

@@ -211,10 +211,6 @@ module.exports = {
       allChunks: true
     }),
 
-    new webpack.ResolverPlugin(
-      new webpack.ResolverPlugin.DirectoryDescriptionFilePlugin('bower.json', ['main'])
-    ),
-
     /*
      * Plugin: ForkCheckerPlugin
      * Description: Do type checking in a separate process, so webpack don't need to wait.

docs/contents/articles/002-installation-guidelines/index.md

@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@ npm install --global typings
 npm install --global typescript
 ```
 
-* bower
-```
-npm install --global bower
-```
-
 ## Clone repository and install dependencies
 
 You will need to clone the source code of ng2-admin GitHub repository:
@@ -59,7 +54,7 @@ This will setup a working copy of ng2-admin on your local machine.
 
 **Note**: If you have any issues after the installation, additionally run the following:
 ```bash
-typings install && bower install
+typings install
 ```
 ## Running local copy
 

docs/contents/articles/012-project-structure/index.md

@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ ng2-admin/
    ├──typedoc.json               * typescript documentation generator
    ├──tsconfig.json              * config that webpack uses for typescript
    ├──typings.json               * our typings manager
-   ├──package.json               * what npm uses to manage it's dependencies
+   └──package.json               * what npm uses to manage it's dependencies
-   ├──bower.json                 * DEPRECATED - moving to npm as primary package manager for all dependenties
-   └──.bowerrc                   * DEPRECARD - temporary bower configuration
 ```
 In our template we tried to separate theme layer and presentation layer. We believe most of other templates have them combined. That's why when you start developing using them, it gets very hard for you to remove things you don't need.

package.json

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
     "google-maps": "^3.2.1",
     "http-server": "^0.9.0",
     "ie-shim": "^0.1.0",
+    "ionicons": "^2.0.1",
     "jquery": "^2.2.3",
     "jquery-slimscroll": "^1.3.6",
     "leaflet": "^0.7.7",
@@ -129,7 +130,6 @@
     "gh-pages": "wintersmith build -C docs && gh-pages -d docs/build",
     "start": "npm run server:dev",
     "start:hmr": "npm run server:dev:hmr",
-    "postinstall": "bower install",
     "version": "npm run build",
     "postversion": "git push && git push --tags"
   },