How to use Bower as frontend dependencies manager for web project based on Laravel 5.x?

1. Install bower globally

$ npm install -g bower

2. We need a bower.json file to get started. The following command will create a file called bower.json.

$ bower init

Or we can create manually in the root of your directory with the following content:

{
  "name": "your-project"
}

3. Add .bowerrc
By default Bower installs into /bower_components, but we want our dependencies in public directory. Create a file named .bowerrc in our root directory with following content:

{
  "directory": "public/bower"
} 

4. Install our front-end dependencies. For example:

$ bower install angular --save
$ bower install jquery --save

Some Related topics:
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/assets-not-accessible-laravel-51

Node monitor - github.com/remy/nodemon

Nodemon restarts the server automatically whenever we save a file that the server uses. We can install Nodemon by using the following command:

$ npm install nodemon --save-dev

We only use nodemon on dev environment.