Why did Bower install to raw/bower_components/?

Asked Feb 07 '17 at 17:30

Active Feb 07 '17 at 17:39

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I've just installed Bower for the first time:

npm install -g bower

I created a new directory, moved into it and used npm init (for Gulp, which I'm about to install) and then told Bower to install Bootstrap from inside the directory:

bower install bootstrap

According to the documentation it should install packages to bower_components/ but instead they got placed into raw/bower_components/. Why?

I'm new to Bower and am wondering if I've done something wrong? And also if I'm safe to move the bower_components/ directory?

edited Feb 07 '17 at 17:39

asked Feb 07 '17 at 17:30

Chuck Le Butt

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Have you checked bower.json settings? or .bowerrc? – Rahi Feb 07 '17 at 17:45
There is no bower.json in the directory, I didn't use `bower init`. – Chuck Le Butt Feb 07 '17 at 17:47
Seems like I'm a bit late to the Bower party. npm and Browserify seem to be where it's at now: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31219726/199700 – Chuck Le Butt Feb 07 '17 at 17:48
What directory is specified under .bowerrc (if any)? – Rahi Feb 07 '17 at 17:48
Its true npm is better way to go if that option is available to you. – Rahi Feb 07 '17 at 17:51
Uinstalled! I'll stick with npm. Would still like to know what happened, though. – Chuck Le Butt Feb 07 '17 at 17:52

Why did Bower install to raw/bower_components/?

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