Why using "yo polymer" with yeoman don't create the bower folder with webcomponent folder?

Question

I'm having this problem, I'm trying to create my polymer project using Yeoman. The problem is when the command finish it is successfully but when I go to the folder I found that the folder bower_components were not created in the project.

I checked and everything is installed, "npm", "bower", "yeoman" and the "polymer generator"

Yeoman Doctor Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid ✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root ✔ Node.js version ✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory ✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory ✔ npm version

Everything looks all right!

bower.json file

{
  "name": "polymer-starter-kit",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "iron-elements": "PolymerElements/iron-elements#^1.0.0",
    "neon-elements": "PolymerElements/neon-elements#^1.0.0",
    "page": "visionmedia/page.js#~1.6.4",
    "paper-elements": "PolymerElements/paper-elements#^1.0.1",
    "platinum-elements": "PolymerElements/platinum-elements#^1.1.0",
    "polymer": "Polymer/polymer#^1.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "ignore": []
}

these are the folders and files inside the project folder:

• CONTRIBUTING.md

• README.md

• bower.json

• node_modules

• tasks

• LICENSE.md

• app

• gulpfile.js

• package.json

• travis-runner.sh

If you see I'm running the command yo doctorand everything looks all right.

Files and Folders created in the project folder:

create bower.json
   create package.json
   create app/cache-config.json
   create app/elements/elements.html
   create app/elements/my-greeting/my-greeting.html
   create app/elements/my-list/my-list.html
   create app/elements/routing.html
   create app/favicon.ico
   create app/images/touch/apple-touch-icon.png
   create app/images/touch/chrome-splashscreen-icon-384x384.png
   create app/images/touch/chrome-touch-icon-192x192.png
   create app/images/touch/icon-128x128.png
   create app/images/touch/icon-512x512.png
   create app/images/touch/icon-72x72.png
   create app/images/touch/icon-96x96.png
   create app/images/touch/ms-icon-144x144.png
   create app/images/touch/ms-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png
   create app/index.html
   create app/manifest.json
   create app/robots.txt
   create app/scripts/app.js
   create app/styles/app-theme.html
   create app/styles/main.css
   create app/styles/shared-styles.html
   create app/sw-import.js
   create CONTRIBUTING.md
   create LICENSE.md
   create README.md
   create tasks/ensure-files.js
   create travis-runner.sh
   create .bowerrc
   create .editorconfig
   create .gitattributes
   create .travis.yml
   create .gitignore
   create gulpfile.js
   create wct.conf.js
   create app/test/index.html
   create app/test/my-greeting-basic.html
   create app/test/my-list-basic.html

Please any help with this?

Answer 1

I solved this problem so I would like to let here my experience on this.

Solution

1. Deleted the Bower cache.
2. Reinstall Git, it seems that when I install a new version of Xcode I needed agreed with license, so when I ran the command Git, I agreed with license.
3. Once again I ran "yo polymer"

And that's all, everything running!

Thank you all for your advices on this

Answer 2

You need to run bower install in your project root in order to get the bower_components directory. Normally, Yeoman generators runs this command for you after setup, but it looks like you have to run it yourself manually.

This will install all dependencies listed in bower.json into the directory bower_components.