Error no such file or directory 'bower_components'

Question

I am trying to make my first yeoman app. I followed every step in the below link: http://ponderingdeveloper.com/2013/03/08/preparing-a-windows-machine-to-use-yeoman/

When I execute yo webapp everything goes well.

But when I use the grunt command I am faced with the following error:

    grunt --trace


    Running "jshint:all" (jshint) task
    >> 4 files lint free.

    Running "clean:server" (clean) task
    Cleaning ".tmp"...OK

    Running "concurrent:test" (concurrent) task

    Running "coffee:dist" (coffee) task
        Warning: Errno::ENOENT on line ["33"] of C: No such file or directory - C:/D
    ysk Google/Sublime/Norbert/motocycle/app/bower_components
        Run with --trace to see the full backtrace Use --force to continue.

        Aborted due to warnings.

I looked for bower_components folder - it does not exist. I know I can change directory in the .bowerrc file, but i do not know which directory is right, I cannot find it.

EDIT : Programs versions:

C:\Dysk Google\Sublime\Norbert\motocycle>grunt --version
grunt-cli v0.1.8
grunt v0.4.1

C:\Dysk Google\Sublime\Norbert\motocycle>yo --version
1.0.0-beta.6

C:\Dysk Google\Sublime\Norbert\motocycle>bower --version
0.9.2

C:\Dysk Google\Sublime\Norbert\motocycle>npm view generator-webapp
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/generator-webapp
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/generator-webapp

{ name: 'generator-webapp',
  description: 'Default Yeoman generator for scaffolding out a front-end web app
',
  'dist-tags': { latest: '0.2.2' },
  versions:
   [ '0.1.0',
     '0.1.1',
     '0.1.2',
     '0.1.3',
     '0.1.4',
     '0.1.5',
     '0.1.6',
     '0.1.7',
     '0.2.0',
     '0.2.1',
     '0.2.2' ],
  maintainers: 'sindresorhus <[email protected]>',
  time:
   { '0.1.0': '2013-02-14T18:59:31.790Z',
     '0.1.1': '2013-02-14T20:50:59.965Z',
     '0.1.2': '2013-02-15T16:08:42.448Z',
     '0.1.3': '2013-02-15T23:08:13.255Z',
     '0.1.4': '2013-02-16T01:02:02.732Z',
     '0.1.5': '2013-02-25T19:56:03.458Z',
     '0.1.6': '2013-04-08T21:07:10.932Z',
     '0.1.7': '2013-04-10T22:12:39.652Z',
     '0.2.0': '2013-05-13T17:53:11.177Z',
     '0.2.1': '2013-05-13T18:06:06.017Z',
     '0.2.2': '2013-05-13T18:09:12.609Z' },
  author: 'Chrome Developer Relations',
  repository:
   { type: 'git',
     url: 'git://github.com/yeoman/generator-webapp.git' },
  users: { passy: true },
  version: '0.2.2',
  keywords:
   [ 'yeoman-generator',
     'web',
     'app',
     'front-end',
     'h5bp',
     'modernizr' ],
  homepage: 'https://github.com/yeoman/generator-webapp',
  bugs: 'https://github.com/yeoman/generator-webapp/issues',
  main: 'app/index.js',
  scripts: { test: 'mocha --reporter spec' },
  dependencies:
   { 'yeoman-generator': '~0.11.1',
     cheerio: '~0.10.8' },
  peerDependencies: { 'generator-mocha': '~0.1.1' },
  devDependencies: { mocha: '~1.9.0' },
  engines: { node: '>=0.8.0' },
  licenses: { type: 'BSD' },
  readmeFilename: 'readme.md',
  dist:
   { shasum: 'd9f69e7dbf0fd680b30abaf710d47fe38e50fd12',
     tarball: 'http://registry.npmjs.org/generator-webapp/-/generator-webapp-0.2
.2.tgz' },
  directories: {} }

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem, ran across this post while trying to troubleshoot. I figured it out with a hint I found in a closed GitHub issue for the Yeoman project.

The solution for me was to delete my ~/.bower directory (Mac) and run bower install again in my project's main directory. Once I did that, I found the bower_components directory was where it was supposed to be, and the sample project running as expected. It looks like you're on a Windows machine though, and I'm not sure where that Bower directory is located for you, but if you can find it, give this a try.