Installing a bower package: "no-json No bower.json file to save to"

Question

I've added a bower package into my project root. I'm using bower so it's easier to manage the updates for each component (one of bower's features). However I got this message after install:

no-json No bower.json file to save to 

A few things:

— There is in fact a bower.json file w/i the component's folder. Should there be a global project bower.json file?

— Will this error mean the package will not update?

— The project is a WordPress project using the "WordPress-Starter-Theme" (which uses grunt to handle compass, etc). Is grunt interfering? Do I need to add anything into Gruntfile.js to manage Bower?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can run

bower init 

to create the json file in the current directory.

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Answer 2

If you're using Visual Studio (2017) you can simply do:

• Add New Item (On the project)
• Choose: Web -> General -> Bower Configuration File

This will not only add a bower.json file, but also the .bowerrc file. Without the .bowerrc file the packages won't be copied from the hidden 'bower_components' folder to the wwwroot/lib folder.