Not being able to run bower in VS 2012

Question

Since yesterday I have been trying to install and use bower for managing my dependencies. After going through many articles although I have been able to install it. I am not

Answer 1

In order to use Bower correctly in Windows, you need to install msysgit correctly. This is the requirement as specified in bower github https://github.com/bower/bower#a-note-for-windows-users.

The option you have to select during installation is Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt.

After successful installation. Restart Visual Studio and then you are good to go.

Answer 2

In my case, after installing msysgit, I installed bower using:

PM> Install-Package Bower

Above step automatically installed dependencies (node.js, jquery)

I also had to specify relative path to bower.cmd:

PM>.\MyProject.bin\bower.cmd install semantic-ui