[danabramov]

I happily use Webpack and NPM and have no problems with it.

NPM is in fact fine for frontend package management, it's not just about being able to use "Node land tools". All my frontend deps are on NPM, I published some NPM packages myself, and I don't even use Node.

Yes there are small issues (like wanting to be able to specify non-dupe requirement for some libraries) but overall NPM works fine for frontend. Much better than Bower if your app is moderately complex.

[endemic]

Agreed. I never saw the point of Bower, since it requires Node itself anyway. With tools like Browserify (and, I assume, Webpack... haven't had a chance to use it yet), you can load dependencies into your project extremely easily: `npm install backbone --save-dev`, then `var Backbone = require('backbone');` in your code.