bower components not installed automatically from bower.json?

[alextreppass]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
I have a bower.json in the root directory of a project alongside package.json.

The bower.json contents are:

{
  "name": "my-project-name",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "appPath": "src",
  "resolutions": {
    "angular": "^1.4.8"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "angular-material": "1.0.3-master-0918596",
    "angular-ui-map": "~0.5.0",
    "angular-tour-no-jQuery": "~0.2.6",
    "ngclipboard": "^1.1.0"
  }
}

Should Bower support work automatically?

(The package.json has a postinstall script that runs bower install. I've seen pre/post-install hooks don't currently get run as per #853, but yarn says it supports bower itself so...)

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.
rm -rf node_modules bower_components

run yarn.

node_modules are populated but bower_components are not.

What is the expected behavior?
yarn reads the bower.json and populates the bower_components folder with bower dependencies.

yarn should also track the bower components in its yarn.lock file (related: #846)

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.
node 6.2.2
yarn 0.15.1 (installed globally with npm)
bower 1.7.9 (installed globally with npm)
OSX El Capitan

[ankon]

Note here: if yarn were to process bower.json, it would be very important for us if it would also honor the configuration file .bowerrc, at least the "directory" entry there.

[sb8244]

Further on this:

I have a setup with node_modules and bower_components. Upon deleting the node_modules directory (but leaving bower_components) and running yarn, I get an empty bower_components directory.

[alextreppass]

@sb8244 you may want #616 for the nixing of bower_components contents

[RustyToms]

This is a duplicate of #665

[omnisite]

If you add the following to package.json, bower install will be called and it works. It is a workaround though:

"scripts": { "postinstall": "bower install" }

[wyze]

Bower support has been dropped in #1441.