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Expand Up @@ -47,6 +47,18 @@ Please read the [2.0 release notes](http://blog.jquery.com/2013/04/18/jquery-2-0

[jQuery 2.1.0 release notes](http://blog.jquery.com/?p=3344)

## Downloading jQuery using Bower
jQuery is registered as a package with [Bower](http://bower.io). You can install the latest version of jQuery with the command:
```
bower install jquery
```
This will install jQuery to Bower's install directory, the default being `bower_components`. Within `bower_components/jquery/dist/` you will find an uncompressed release, a compressed release, and a map file.

The jQuery Bower package contains additional files besides the default distribution. In most cases you can ignore these files, however if you wish to download the default release on it's own you can use Bower to install jQuery from one of the above urls instead of the registered package. For example, if you wish to install just the compressed jQuery 2.1.0, you can install just that file with the following command:
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This seems like an odd thing for us to document.

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Documented this at the request of @dmethvin in PR jquery/jquery/pull/1542. The idea being that this may cut down on the volume of complaints concerning the amount of files downloaded when requesting the jQuery package through Bower.

What's the reason for it being "odd"?

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Documented this at the request of @dmethvin

I don't see where he asked for this. Can you point to the specific comment?

What's the reason for it being "odd"?

Are there any other projects telling people how to use Bower to install arbitrary files instead of actual packages?

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@dmethvin asked here: jquery/jquery#1542 (comment)

I don't know off hand if any other projects mention doing this but installing an arbitrary file instead of an actual package is described here: http://bower.io/#installing-packages-and-dependencies, in the last bullet point under "Where <package> can be any one of the following"

This obviously isn't the best way to install jQuery but according to what @dmethvin has said, there seems to be a number of people who for one reason or another have a problem with getting more than just jquery.js from the Bower package. This update the documentation is attempting to highlight an alternative in case they didn't think of it on their own.

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@ornj I don't know whether you PR will land nor can I influence in any way. However, if it is accepted it would be great if you could fix a small typo: on it's own -> on its own. Thanks :-)

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I always mess that up. I think someone else is going to work on this but thanks for the copy edit.

```
bower install http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.min.js
```

## jQuery Migrate Plugin

We have created the [jQuery Migrate plugin](http://github.com/jquery/jquery-migrate/#readme)
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