A vendor catalog is not created during the build of the ember-cli project

Question

I am trying to create / run an ember-cli project that I received from a colleague. When I try to run it using

> ember server 

I get the following error:

  > ember server version: 0.0.40 ENOENT, no such file or directory "vendor/" Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory "vendor/" at Object.fs.readdirSync (fs.js:654:18) at walkSync (/Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/walk-sync/index.js:14:20) at /Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/broccoli-merge-trees/index.js:26:26 at tryCatch (/Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/commonjs/rsvp/-internal.js:163:16) at invokeCallback (/Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/commonjs/rsvp/-internal.js:172:17) at publish (/Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/commonjs/rsvp/-internal.js:150:13) at flush (/Users/ember/projects/ember/modal-example/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/commonjs/rsvp/asap.js:51:9) at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13) 

Before starting the server, I successfully completed the installation of "npm install" and "bower install".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank

Answer 1

Do you have a .bowerrc file in your project? content should be:

 { "directory": "vendor" } 

Then run bower install again

Answer 2

Explicitly adding the .bowerrc file works - but it turns out that I really needed to execute ...

 > ember init 

As soon as I started, a .bowerrc file was created for me.