Yii2: wrong bower path alias

[konorlevich]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Fresh-installed yii2 base app

What do you get instead?

Invalid Parameter – yii\base\InvalidParamException
The file or directory to be published does not exist: /home/travkin/my_hosts/united_ua/vendor/bower/jquery/dist

Way to resolve

/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Application.php line 461

Yii::setAlias('@bower', $this->_vendorPath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'bower');

change to

Yii::setAlias('@bower', $this->_vendorPath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'bower-asset');

Additional info

| Q | A
| ---------------- | ---
| Yii version | 2.0.12

[shirase]

@konorlevich i think you need upgrade your fxp/composer-asset-plugin because installer-paths format is changed, and old version do not understands new format and installs to default bower-asset folder. Try run composer global require fxp/composer-asset-plugin.

[sizeg]

define aliases in your config if in composer.json you use asset-packagist.org instead of fxp/composer-asset-plugin

'aliases' => [
    '@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
    '@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
],

[sizeg]

This string Yii::setAlias('@bower', $this->_vendorPath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'bower'); cann't be changed cause of bc break

[moltam]

I had the same problem with fxp/composer-asset-plugin 1.2. The error disappeared after upgrading the plugin to version 1.3.

In Yii 2.0.12 the config options for the asset-plugin have changed (see), because the old config format was deprecated, and changed in fxp/composer-asset-plugin v1.3.

The section for the asset-plugin has been removed from the install guide in the master branch, and this causes confusion for new installs. This has been discussed at the related commit.

[schmunk42]

Related https://github.com/fxpio/composer-asset-plugin/issues/293

[SilverFire]

@konorlevich Have you installed application template as it is listed in the manual?

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[bahirul]

I had same problem, where i want overrides bower, npm, vendor alias.
I set alias on a bootstrap file, but seem yii/base/Application overrides it.
Maybe on setVendorPath method you can add validation is bower, npm, vendor not null.
So use value from Yii::setAlias on bootstrap file.

Thanks.

[bahirul]

Or maybe we can use oomphinc/composer-installers-extender globaly for replace fxp/composer-asset-plugin.
And then add :

"extra": { "installer-types": ["bower-asset", "npm-asset"], "installer-paths": { "vendor/bower/{$name}": ["type:bower-asset"], "vendor/npm/{$name}" : ["type:npm-asset"] } },

I solve my problem by doing this.

[konorlevich]

i think you need upgrade your fxp/composer-asset-plugin because installer-paths format is changed, and old version do not understands new format and installs to default bower-asset folder. Try run composer global require fxp/composer-asset-plugin

@shirase, thank you, it works