Grunt (bowerInstall) fails to download bower components

[sondreb]

When running the gruntfile with "grunt debug" and modifying the bower.json file, I get the following error on Windows 8.1:

Warning: Cannot read property 'main' of undefined Use --force to continue.
Aborted due to warnings.

This happens when I create a shiny new project, and all I did was add the angular dependecy: "angular": "1.2.16".

[sondreb]

Solution: run "bower update" before running "grunt bowerInstall".

Perhaps the readme should include instructions, or bower update should be run in the gruntfile?

[ragingwind]

I don't understand bower install angular --save command will download the dependencies. grunt bowerInstall`` did not download bower dependencies I think you tried to modify the bower.json in your editor but It's better you do command bower install

[sondreb]

I did modify bower.json yes, I realize that the more proper workflow is to run the bower install command. Thanks!