bower install --save not added to build

[bogdancss]

Added a new 3rd party lib using bower install --save some-lib.js. This adds it to the bower.json file but that's it. I can add it manually to index.html:

<!-- build:js scripts/vendor.js -->
<!-- bower:js -->
<script src="/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/modernizr/modernizr.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/some-lib/dist/some-lib.min.js"></script>
<!-- endbower -->
<!-- endbuild -->

As soon as I run gulp build, gulp wiredep or gulp build, it disappears from index and it does not get included in the build.

I have no changes to the default config.

[muhamed87]

Try running the following command to install a library and include it in the devDependencies: bower install --save-dev some-lib.js

Then check it after running the gulp build, gulp wiredep or even the gulp serve

[bogdancss]

nope - tried that as well. After installing a lib with --save-dev has the same result as with --save. Running any of the build, wiredep or serve commands, removes the path to the js file from <!-- build:js scripts/vendor.js --> <!-- bower:js --> section.

After building, I run gulp serve:dist and check the vendor.js file - the new lib is not there either

[muhamed87]

You can try a workaround, by adding the library manually after the <!-- endbower --> and before the <!-- endbuild -->

[bogdancss]

nice - that worked. thank you. Is there a way to modify the gulpfile to add the path to the new lib automatically to the index?

[muhamed87]

could you please tell about which library you need to include, some of the libraries have an issue that the bower not include even if it is included in the bower.json file, and this may require an update at the library bower json file itself in the bower_components folder

[bogdancss]

it's ShuffleJS. I checked the lib folder and there is no bower.json file, however, there is a .bower.json (preceding dot) with these contents:

{
  "name": "shufflejs",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Vestride/Shuffle",
  "version": "5.0.3",
  "_release": "5.0.3",
  "_resolution": {
    "type": "version",
    "tag": "v5.0.3",
    "commit": "068c8acf9fe4ae6d5de6b2ffe16f6ededc84d14c"
  },
  "_source": "https://github.com/Vestride/Shuffle.git",
  "_target": "^5.0.3",
  "_originalSource": "shufflejs",
  "_direct": true
}

[muhamed87]

All bower components installed is injected using the gulp wiredep task.

some components bower json files should be updated, please check that issue and how the developer make the workaround solution by updating the component bower json file https://github.com/yeoman/generator-angular/issues/1325