I haven't used bower for a number of years; checking out their site, I now see: "...psst! While Bower is maintained, we recommend using Yarn and Webpack or Parcel for front-end projects read how to migrate!"

If this project is meant to be viable going forward, I propose migrating from bower to npm or yarn and webpack.

This would certainly support the main use case. I am interested in incorporating as a library, and the current lack of a package.json means I need to hard-fork, which is unfortunate.