"Current installation is invalid, please run NPM install first" because of bower component

[naholyr]

We put bower dependencies in a specific folder, using .bowerrc. We installed Angular as a Bower dependency, and when I run next-update I get:

next-update - Tests if module's dependencies can be updated to latest version
  version: 0.5.1
  author: {"name":"Gleb Bahmutov","email":"[email protected]"}
checking if the current state works
ERROR: cannot find folder /home/nchambrier/Projects/LMTM/ooz/bower_components/angular
ERROR testing next working updates
Error: Current installation is invalid, please run NPM install first
    at /home/nchambrier/.nvm/v0.10.32/lib/node_modules/next-update/src/next-update.js:35:26
    at node.js:906:3
From previous event:
    at checkDependenciesInstalled (/home/nchambrier/.nvm/v0.10.32/lib/node_modules/next-update/src/next-update.js:29:19)
    at Object.checkCurrentInstall (/home/nchambrier/.nvm/v0.10.32/lib/node_modules/next-update/src/next-update.js:43:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/nchambrier/.nvm/v0.10.32/lib/node_modules/next-update/index.js:129:38)

Obviously, if it looks for Angular in ./bower_components it won't be found as there is no such folder.

next-update should either

• ignore bower dependencies (I thought it only checked npm dependencies)
• read .bowerrc

[bahmutov]

Will get to this sometime, or mind implementing this as a pull request?

[naholyr]

I would gladly get into it, but I'm not sure what the good fix is: ignore bower.json or not ignore bowerrc?

[iamstarkov]

get the same error

[iamstarkov]

is it okay to handle bower registry with this tool? if new ones will appear in future? It will be hard to maintain, won’t it?

[bahmutov]

I think it is fine to use this tool for bower dependency, I guess in this case it should really read .bowerrc I will try fixing this over the weekend

[iamstarkov]

Actually, I found very confusing that error suggest only npm i even If I forgot only bower deps. It’s a bit complicated for me to separate forgotten npm deps from case of forgotten bower ones. But it’s pretty easy to add suggestion about bower deps in that error message and it will be good enough, I think. If you are think the same, I created #51 about it. Feel free to ask any question there.