Force Bower reinstall

[neverfox]

Maybe this is already possible somehow, but there should be a way to tell mimosa to force a bower reinstall even when it doesn't think there should be one. The only thing I seem to be able to do now is delete `.mimosa/bower', which is a bit of a pain. A command line arg would be ideal.

I'm not sure why this happens to me but sometimes, moving around git branches, I'll lose a vendor file (I don't check them in if they come from Bower) and mimosa still thinks things are cool because I haven't touched anything that normally triggers it. Those are times when a simple force reinstall would be good to have.

[zaceno]

I have the same issue. Running "mimosa bower:clean", it removes all bower installed assets. So you'd think that running "mimosa bower" thereafter would cause a full re-install of all bower deps. But it just says no bower installs are necessary, even though it just deleted them all from my assets folder.

Only way to get reinstall is to do a rm -rf .mimosa/bower, the run "mimosa bower". For me, at least.

[neverfox]

Yes, and while it could be something like a bower:reinstall too, what I'd really like is something that's part of the watch command, like a -r flag, so that it force triggers this re-installation during app start, just like you might want to always do a -d.

[dbashford]

@zaceno I can't reproduce that. With latest mimosa

• mimosa new foo -d
• cd foo
• mimosa watch
• CNTL-C
• mimosa bower:clean
• mimosa watch

The last mimosa watch will install the bower stuff.

It works this way if I use mimosa bower instead of mimosa watch.

[dbashford]

I can get behind a reinstall. Its essentially a bower:clean followed by a bower.

I'm a little leery about introducing a top level flag for something specific to a module like this.

Maybe a -C/--cleanall that will essentially wipe out the .mimosa folder and force all modules that cache information there to rebuild?

Can't use -r as it has some specific connotations at the command line.

[dbashford]

Added the -C/--cleanall flag to watch, build and clean commands. I'll pass on adding reinstall for now.

[zaceno]

@dbashford : I was running an older Mimosa. With 2.2.5, I can't reproduce it either. So I withdraw my complaint :)

Even so: thumbs up on the --cleanall flag. I frequently find myself deleting the .mimosa folder when debugging things.

[neverfox]

Thanks. I'll give this a shot.