My standard Ionic Bower file

bower.json

{
  "name": "MadnessBower",
  "private": "true",
  "devDependencies": {
    "ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#master",
    "font-awesome": "~4.2.0",
    "animate.css": "~3.2.0",
    "geoffgraham.animate.scss": "*",
    "ionicons": "~2.0.1",
    "ngCordova": "~0.1.12-alpha",
    "angularfire": "~1.0.0"
  }
}