How to change bower's default components folder?

Question

I'm making a new project that uses bower from twitter. I created a component.json to maintain all my dependency like jquery. Then I run bower install that installs everything in a folder named components. But I need to install the components in a different folder, e.g. public/components.

I have tried editing my components.json into:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "directory": "public/",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "*"
  }
}

or:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "componentsDirectory": "public/",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "*"
  }
}

as shown in https://github.com/twitter/bower/pull/94 but it doesn't work.

Answer 1

Create a Bower configuration file .bowerrc in the project root (as opposed to your home directory) with the content:

{
  "directory" : "public/components"
}

Run bower install again.