I cannot run "grunt serve"

[thucxuong]

I catched this error when running grunt serve command.
FileError: '../bower_components/bootstrap/less/bootstrap.less' wasn't found in app/styles/main.less on line 1, column 1:
Can you help me ?

[ptim]

I'm experiencing this, too..

[ptim]

The entire app/bower directory was missing.. tracked back to the message:

I'm all done. Running bower install & npm install for you to install the required dependencies. If this fails, try running the command yourself.

Running these two commands manually sorted the issue out for me with grunt serve (though running grunt fails with niggling jshint errors)

Thanks!

[thucxuong]

Yeah, you're right,I give it a try. I'll tell u if it's the case.

Thanks.

[jonahvsweb]

Run grunt build & grunt server to avoid the jshint errors.

[joshuapekera]

Just run bower install that will install all your bower components that are speced in the bower.json file and mapped in the .bowerrc file. Then run grunt serve

[andrewcarreiro]

There appears to be an error in the generator. On line 156 of my gruntfile, there is:

less: {
    options: {
        paths: ['<%= config.app %>/bower_components'],
    },

However, this is incorrect. The bower_components directory does not exist inside the config.app directory, it resides beside it. I believe this block should read:

less: {
    options: {
        paths: ['bower_components'],
    },

[say2joe]

@andrewcarreiro Thank you. That was the issue. I've seen this issue in quite a few generators actually, over the past year or so... but this is the best answer for the fix!

[recurrsed]

@andrewcarreiro Thank you good man!