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Grunt not updating Script Tags in Angularjs App

I have two Angularjs projects scaffolded using Yeoman. The first project is a library that has been scaffolded with the Angular Library Generator while the second is a full app scaffolded with the Yeoman Angular Generator. I want the App to use the Library so in the App directory I installed the library using Bower:

bower install github-id/library-name --save

Although the library is not registered with Bower I can still install it with my Github Id and library name. The bower_components directory now holds the library and its dependencies but when I run Grunt using grunt serve or just grunt, the App's Index.html file is not being updated with the library, although you can see that other modules such as lodash, for example, are there:

<!-- build:js(.) scripts/vendor.js -->
<!-- bower:js -->
<script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-animate/angular-animate.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-cookies/angular-cookies.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-messages/angular-messages.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-resource/angular-resource.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-route/angular-route.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-sanitize/angular-sanitize.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/angular-touch/angular-touch.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/lodash/lodash.js"></script>
<!-- endbower -->
<!-- endbuild -->

And if I try to add the library as a script tag manually, Grunt subsequently removes any tags that I add.

Can anyone tell me why the tags are not being added?

Thanks!

Solution

  • The problem was solved by looking in the bower.json file of library project in the bower_components directory of my app. In the bower.json file, the path given under the "main" field was incorrect. Once this was fixed then the library was added to the `index.html correctly.