YEOMAN + BOWER: "EINVALID - Failed to read Z:\bower.json"

Question

I've just installed Yeoman, along with related dependencies (Karma, Grunt CLI, PhantomJS, Jasmine, etc.)

When running the AngularJS generator, I seem to be getting the following error:

bower EINVALID Failed to read Z:\bower.json
Warning: Error: Cannot find where you keep your Bower packages
Aborted due to warnings.

Some trouble shooting steps would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

Did you install them globally? npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli. And npm install -g generator-angular (or whatever generator you are using). Otherwise check if all the package are on your PATH. You can do this by running 'grunt --version' in your bash. — Daan van Hulst, Jan 21 '16 at 15:07
Seems like the error message has changed: Now getting just "Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt" — Aaron, Jan 21 '16 at 15:12
I think that means that grunt isn't in your package.json. Or you don't have a Grunt file in your local folder. — Daan van Hulst, Jan 21 '16 at 15:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 13 '16 at 11:44

It seems to be a bad description in bower.json properties. I've tried sudo chown $user:$group as other user on stackoverflow suggested. If every command does not work neither a bower clean or bower install etc.etc., it means that he reads bower.json but since it's not well formatted it crashes. It could help to place or to confront the bower.json content with this

{
  "name": "angular",
  "version": "1.5.8",
  "license": "MIT",
  "main": "./angular.js",
  "ignore": [ ],
  "dependencies": {
  }
}

This is how I Fixed after all suggestions from internet failed.

Best regards

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 30 '18 at 02:31

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I have got the same error, when used non-latin characteres in the name:

{
  "name": "ЙЦЖЩШ",
  "description": "",
  ...
}

Just use only latin characters.

answered Jul 30 '18 at 02:31

bigsiter

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