No bower.json present when using bower 1.5.x

[jsolis]

We have a bunch of projects with the same bower setup.

In the root of the project, there is a .bowerrc file with "cwd" set to "client".

{
  "cwd": "client",
  "directory": "src/bower_components"
}

In the "client" directory we have our bower.json file. We run "bower install" from the root of the project.

We have been using this same set up for over a year in some projects. It seems starting with bower 1.5.0, we started getting the error pasted below.

Downgrading to 1.4.1 fixed the issue. We were also able to replicate this on 5 different machines (4 devs + our build server).

For now we downgraded bower on our build server to 1.4.1 to get around this issue.

bower                           ENOENT No bower.json present

Stack trace:
Error: No bower.json present
    at createError (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/util/createError.js:4:15)
    at /Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/core/Project.js:54:19
From previous event:
    at Project.install (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/core/Project.js:88:6)
    at install (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/commands/install.js:26:20)
    at /Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/commands/index.js:32:28

Console trace:
Error
    at StandardRenderer.error (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/renderers/StandardRenderer.js:82:37)
    at Logger.<anonymous> (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/bin/bower:110:22)
    at Logger.emit (events.js:107:17)
    at Logger.emit (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/bower-logger/lib/Logger.js:29:39)
    at /Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/lib/commands/index.js:45:20
    at _rejected (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:844:24)
    at /Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:870:30
    at Promise.when (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:1122:31)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:788:41)
    at /Users/jsolis/Sites/m-stay-checkout/node_modules/bower/node_modules/q/q.js:604:44
System info:
Bower version: 1.5.1
Node version: 0.12.7
OS: Darwin 14.4.0 x64

[sheerun]

Yes, it's a bug. Sorry about that. I'll push fix soon.

[jsolis]

👍 awesome, thanks for the quick reply

[sheerun]

In 1.5.2 I've reverted auto-running in directory containing bower.json, so it should be fine now..

[jsolis]

🏆 confirmed this works with v 1.5.2 again. Thanks!!