Avoid including jQuery

[pasine]

I have noticed that running the generator without including Bootstrap causes bower to still loading jQuery: why this? Is it still necessary for something that I am missing?

Another thing: what do you think about switching from angular-ui to angular-strap for handling Boostrap directives? It looks more angular-like and doesn't require jQuery.

[kingcody]

Just for the record, angular-bootstrap does not require jQuery either.

[kingcody]

Also, I do believe that bootstrap/bootstrap-sass-official are the only packages that depend on jquery

[pasine]

That's true, but I think the dependency should not be included into the main bower.json.

[kingcody]

I pretty much agree with you @pasine, my only reserve is that angular will use jQuery instead of it's built-in jQuery-lite if jQuery is loaded into the window before angular loads. I'm wondering if switching to strictly jQuery-lite included with angular would cause any problems for users accustomed to full jQuery support with angular.element. What are your thoughts?

[pasine]

I understand, but this should be a generator, a starting point for all users, so IMHO it should be as lean as possible in terms of external resources.
If people really need jQuery, they can simply add it manually using bower as any other library.

[kingcody]

I completely understand.

Care to make a PR? If you do, I'd dare say you could remove jQuery altogether and let the bootstrap dependency bring it in when needed.

[kingcody]

Another potential good point to add to this is:
Using angular.element is strongly preferred over accessing jQuery directly, so code written by convention will not likely be affected by this change.