# Using bower.json to piecemeal bootstrap

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/using-bower-json-to-piecemeal-bootstrap/4271
**Category:** sage
**Created:** 2015-07-18T01:29:23Z
**Posts:** 5
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## Post 3 by @JulienMelissas — 2015-07-18T15:11:41Z

Bower always “installs” every project’s files. Including src, build, repo websites, etc. That said, not all of those files go into the final `main.js` and `main.css` files, and therefore have no effect on the size of your project.

Deleting lines referencing Bootstrap JS from that file will keep those files from being compiled into `main.js`, as @austin said.

If you’d like to customize what scss files to include I recommend that you copy Bootstrap’s `_bootstrap.scss` into your own styles and `@import` that into `main.scss` (you can remove it from bower.json). Personally, I do this with a good amount of my projects.

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