bower is "out of fashion" lol
when you can do it with npm why use another package ? All the packages in npm are actually dependencies of other dependencies, so they are all required. I know it's bulky but that's the way it is for now.
You can use rollup and webpack with elixir https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/elixir#working-with-scripts
You might wanna checkout https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn the newest addition to package management. I don't think it supports elixir out of the box, you need to write your own gulp script to process js and css.
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