diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/bower.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/bower.section.md
index 20c142dad5b9..346852c49426 100644
--- a/doc/languages-frameworks/bower.section.md
+++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/bower.section.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 The end result of running Bower is a `bower_components` directory which can be included in the web app's build process.
 
-Bower can be run interactively, by installing `nodePackages.bower`. More interestingly, the Bower components can be declared in a Nix derivation, with the help of `nodePackages.bower2nix`.
+Bower can be run interactively, by installing `nodePackages.bower`. More interestingly, the Bower components can be declared in a Nix derivation, with the help of `bower2nix`.
 
 ## bower2nix usage {#ssec-bower2nix-usage}
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
index e1c3fcb5eec3..792156d5bde0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ mapAliases {
   inherit (pkgs) bash-language-server; # added 2024-06-07
   bibtex-tidy = pkgs.bibtex-tidy; # added 2023-07-30
   bitwarden-cli = pkgs.bitwarden-cli; # added 2023-07-25
+  inherit (pkgs) bower2nix; # added 2024-08-23
   inherit (pkgs) btc-rpc-explorer; # added 2023-08-17
   inherit (pkgs) carbon-now-cli; # added 2023-08-17
   inherit (pkgs) carto; # added 2023-08-17
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
index bb694d4507a3..3364d6f72f39 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 , "aws-cdk"
 , "awesome-lint"
 , "bower"
-, "bower2nix"
 , "browserify"
 , "browser-sync"
 , "cdk8s-cli"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
index 6e8950921563..8bf89bc8b213 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.nix
@@ -59113,140 +59113,6 @@ in
     bypassCache = true;
     reconstructLock = true;
   };
-  bower2nix = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
-    name = "bower2nix";
-    packageName = "bower2nix";
-    version = "3.2.0";
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/bower2nix/-/bower2nix-3.2.0.tgz";
-      sha512 = "oNHyIWiU5OpUoDCSSRCZQ6JkXyBgtyi+odbv+XSmO6/KCn3B4SRT3/d+QKNj5UQ8KRsrBAI0Ry7CG2OtqrFE1A==";
-    };
-    dependencies = [
-      sources."argparse-1.0.4"
-      sources."array-find-index-1.0.2"
-      sources."balanced-match-1.0.2"
-      sources."bower-1.8.14"
-      sources."bower-endpoint-parser-0.2.1"
-      sources."bower-json-0.6.0"
-      sources."bower-logger-0.2.1"
-      sources."brace-expansion-1.1.11"
-      sources."camelcase-2.1.1"
-      sources."camelcase-keys-2.1.0"
-      sources."concat-map-0.0.1"
-      sources."currently-unhandled-0.4.1"
-      sources."debug-2.6.9"
-      sources."decamelize-1.2.0"
-      sources."deep-extend-0.4.2"
-      sources."ends-with-0.2.0"
-      sources."error-ex-1.3.2"
-      sources."ext-list-2.2.2"
-      sources."ext-name-3.0.0"
-      sources."find-up-1.1.2"
-      (sources."fs-extra-0.26.7" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."graceful-fs-4.2.11"
-        ];
-      })
-      sources."fs.realpath-1.0.0"
-      sources."function-bind-1.1.2"
-      sources."get-stdin-4.0.1"
-      sources."glob-6.0.4"
-      sources."graceful-fs-3.0.12"
-      sources."hasown-2.0.2"
-      sources."hosted-git-info-2.8.9"
-      sources."indent-string-2.1.0"
-      sources."inflight-1.0.6"
-      sources."inherits-2.0.4"
-      sources."intersect-1.0.1"
-      sources."is-arrayish-0.2.1"
-      sources."is-core-module-2.15.1"
-      sources."is-finite-1.1.0"
-      sources."is-plain-obj-1.1.0"
-      sources."is-utf8-0.2.1"
-      (sources."jsonfile-2.4.0" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."graceful-fs-4.2.11"
-        ];
-      })
-      (sources."klaw-1.3.1" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."graceful-fs-4.2.11"
-        ];
-      })
-      (sources."load-json-file-1.1.0" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."graceful-fs-4.2.11"
-        ];
-      })
-      sources."lodash-4.2.1"
-      sources."loud-rejection-1.6.0"
-      sources."map-obj-1.0.1"
-      sources."meow-3.7.0"
-      sources."mime-db-1.53.0"
-      sources."minimatch-3.1.2"
-      sources."minimist-1.2.8"
-      sources."mkdirp-0.5.6"
-      sources."ms-2.0.0"
-      sources."natives-1.1.6"
-      sources."normalize-package-data-2.5.0"
-      sources."object-assign-4.1.1"
-      sources."once-1.4.0"
-      sources."os-tmpdir-1.0.2"
-      sources."parse-json-2.2.0"
-      sources."path-exists-2.1.0"
-      sources."path-is-absolute-1.0.1"
-      sources."path-parse-1.0.7"
-      (sources."path-type-1.1.0" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."graceful-fs-4.2.11"
-        ];
-      })
-      sources."pify-2.3.0"
-      sources."pinkie-2.0.4"
-      sources."pinkie-promise-2.0.1"
-      sources."promised-temp-0.1.0"
-      sources."q-1.5.1"
-      sources."read-pkg-1.1.0"
-      sources."read-pkg-up-1.0.1"
-      sources."redent-1.0.0"
-      sources."repeating-2.0.1"
-      sources."resolve-1.22.8"
-      (sources."rimraf-2.7.1" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."glob-7.2.3"
-        ];
-      })
-      sources."semver-5.7.2"
-      sources."signal-exit-3.0.7"
-      sources."sort-keys-1.1.2"
-      sources."sort-keys-length-1.0.1"
-      sources."spdx-correct-3.2.0"
-      sources."spdx-exceptions-2.5.0"
-      sources."spdx-expression-parse-3.0.1"
-      sources."spdx-license-ids-3.0.20"
-      sources."sprintf-js-1.0.3"
-      sources."strip-bom-2.0.0"
-      sources."strip-indent-1.0.1"
-      sources."supports-preserve-symlinks-flag-1.0.0"
-      (sources."temp-0.8.3" // {
-        dependencies = [
-          sources."rimraf-2.2.8"
-        ];
-      })
-      sources."trim-newlines-1.0.0"
-      sources."validate-npm-package-license-3.0.4"
-      sources."wrappy-1.0.2"
-    ];
-    buildInputs = globalBuildInputs;
-    meta = {
-      description = "Generate nix expressions to fetch bower dependencies";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/rvl/bower2nix";
-      license = "GPL-3.0";
-    };
-    production = true;
-    bypassCache = true;
-    reconstructLock = true;
-  };
   browserify = nodeEnv.buildNodePackage {
     name = "browserify";
     packageName = "browserify";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/overrides.nix
index 5424ad35afa6..c3db83758006 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/overrides.nix
@@ -36,15 +36,6 @@ final: prev: {
     buildInputs = [ final.node-gyp-build ];
   };
 
-  bower2nix = prev.bower2nix.override {
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.buildPackages.makeWrapper ];
-    postInstall = ''
-      for prog in bower2nix fetch-bower; do
-        wrapProgram "$out/bin/$prog" --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ pkgs.git pkgs.nix ]}
-      done
-    '';
-  };
-
   expo-cli = prev."expo-cli".override (oldAttrs: {
     # The traveling-fastlane-darwin optional dependency aborts build on Linux.
     dependencies = builtins.filter (d: d.packageName != "@expo/traveling-fastlane-${if stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux then "darwin" else "linux"}") oldAttrs.dependencies;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1463ac224a84..64114c4d6969 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -906,9 +906,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   fet-sh = callPackage ../tools/misc/fet-sh { };
 
-  fetchbower = callPackage ../build-support/fetchbower {
-    inherit (nodePackages) bower2nix;
-  };
+  fetchbower = callPackage ../build-support/fetchbower { };
 
   fetchbzr = callPackage ../build-support/fetchbzr { };