What is causing 'grunt serve' to throw 'No Bower components found'?

Question

I am starting out angular app with angular-fullstack in my Windows 7 box. I installed bunch of npm packages with -g options, including grunt-bower-install. I created the app

Answer 1

Confusingly, the grunt-bower-install task that comes with angular-fullstack doesn't install bower components. It doesn't install anything. This error is trying to let you know that it can't find the bower_components directly, so it can't do its thing.

To fix the issue, run bower install.

If you don't have Bower installed, run npm install -g bower first.

Answer 2

I faced the same problem but only did npm install -g bower and then bower install and got grunt serve working.

I did not need to do any of the things mentioned by Olga.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

The Bower installation requires the packages to be brought from the Git repository, so first you need to install the Git application in your system. You can download it from this link :https://git-scm.com/downloads . Now after your have downloaded it , there may be a chance that the PATH may not be set up, so go to ControlPanel -> System and Security -> System -> Advance System Settings (on the left-hand side), click it, then goto Environment Variables -> System Variables -> PATH , click edit , and write down the following paths :

;C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin; C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd ....Well the above path is where Git was installed in my system, you can crawl to the place in your system where Git was installed and select the paths from the "bin" and "cmd" folder and paste it on the PATH variable.

Now, after the GIT path is setup, you can now type in the command " $ bower install " , this will install all of your bower packages.