bower command not found windows

Question

I am having huge problems trying to use bower (to install foundation 5) or get anything bower related to work on the command line.

I\'ve installed

• ruby

Answer 1

in case this helps.

I'm a npm / bower nooB - but what happened in my case was, that I was using the Angular JS tutorial, which seems to have bower set up to be used via npm, and NOT via the command line directly.

Note: in my case I think my bower install got messed up. I ran this to fix up my bower install:

npm install -gf bower

Then I edited my bower.json file to add in a new library that I wanted to use (in my case angular-sanitize)

I CD to the location of my project

cd myProjectPath

Then to run bower, I actually used npm install:

npm install

This seems to to run bower as a node package, which in turn scans bower.json and installs any missing bower packages.

To run bower as a npm package, add npm before the bower command:

npm bower -v

hope this helps,

Sean