Grunt / Bower / Component: Dependency Handling?

I am creating something like a basic template / workflow for building websites, mostly using Grunt.

Part of this pattern is the Modernizr object detection library, one of my Grunt tasks depends on.

At the moment, I just saved this dependency in the manifest bower.json

. This leads to two problems:

• I need to update project title, version, author, etc. in mine bower.json
  
  and package.json
  
  (for Grunt).
• I don't like the fact that my dependencies are propagated like this: I need to run npm install
  
  and bower install ...
  
  before I can start working. (Not that it was a big effort, but for me it really is counterintuitive.)

Is there a smarter, more general way to handle dependencies like this?

I've already looked at using files component.json

that can be read by various package managers (I've looked at DUO in particular), but I'm not sure if this is actually the case. The build process seems to be on, but I'm already building via Grunt.