changing the bower install path for certain repositories only

Question

I have been playing around with Bower and coincidentally also with Polymer.

you can download polymer elements via bower like:

bower install --save PolymerElements/iron-image

I'm guessing there's some repo that polymer knows to search in to find that file.

I would like to have anything from PolymerElements/* go to a folder called web_components rather than the bower_components folder, but I want everything else to still go to bower_components How can I achieve this?

I know I can tell everything to go to web_components by putting:

{
  "directory" : "web_components"
}

in my .bowerrc

Answer 1

This cannot be done with the built-in tools/arguments provided by bower. You will need to come up with a custom script to handle component placement. Sounds like a good feature request to add to their github issues page.