Vendor directory not being generated during ember-cli project build

Question

I'm trying to build/run an ember-cli based project that I got from a colleague. When I try and run it with

> ember server

I'm getting 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 ran both 'npm install' and 'bower install'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

do you have a .bowerrc file in the project? the content should be:

{
  "directory": "vendor"
}

Then run bower install again

Answer 2

Explicitly adding a .bowerrc file works - but it turns out what I really needed to do was run ...

> ember init

Once I ran that the .bowerrc file was created for me.