Cannot find bower packages
I installed Yeoman on snow leopard OSX 6.8. When I run 'grunt serve' I get the following error (it can't find my bower packages):
Dream-2:app1 goldenheart$ grunt serve
Running "serve" task
Running "clean:server" (clean) task
>> 1 path cleaned.
Running "wiredep:app" (wiredep) task
Warning: Error: Cannot find where you keep your Bower packages. Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.
Execution Time (2015-05-21 00:17:32 UTC)
loading tasks 2.3s ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 92%
wiredep:app 187ms ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 8%
Total 2.5s
I tried a number of things suggested on other stackoverflow posts, such as installing bower and grunt locally but I'm still getting the above error.
Answer
You can add a .bowerrc file in the root of your project. In that file, you can define where bower need to install its packages. Add this into that file:
{
"directory": "... your location ..."
}