Composer / bower integration? Configurable paths?

I am wondering if it would be good to add composer integration for library dependencies. Alternatively maybe make library paths configurable? I am using https://asset-packagist.org/ with my local composer file so that I can use bower to grab slick carousel and jquery.easing respectively. As a stop-gap I created a local patch (see attached) so that I can reference the bower paths. This is not ideal. Another option would be to just make those paths configurable so that you could override locally.