For Bower, set absolute path for directory setting in .bowerrc

Question

I am trying to do this in my .bowerrc file

"directory": "~/bower_components"

which I want is to resolve to the current users home folder:

/home/me/bower_components

but currently it is being resolved to:

[currentDirectory]/~/bower_components

Is their a way to get it to point to an absolute path?

Answer 1

The field you need to set in the .bowerrc is cwd to give your installs an absolute root.

For example, the .bowerrc file:

{
  'cwd': '/var/www/libraries',
  'directory': 'vendor'
}

will result in all your bower update/install commands to place packages in /var/www/libraries/vendor.

I experimented with using ~ for the cwd parameter, and Bower didn't understand it.

The documentation for what Bower expects to find in .bowerrc is in this Google doc.