polymer : unable initialize project from a template

Question

I am trying learn with my first polymer app and I am stuck.

I started from here: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/start/toolbox/set-up

I installed the Polymer CLI successfully. Now, When I am trying to initialize project from a template, it shows following log in my cmd:

C:\Users\chint\Desktop\polymer-app>polymer init app-drawer-template
info:    Running template app-drawer-template
info:    Downloading latest release of Polymer/app-drawer-template
info:    Unpacking template files
info:    Finished writing template files

I'm all done. Running bower install for you to install the required dependencies. If this fails, try running the command yourself.


bower                           ENOENT No bower.json present

And when I checked, my polymer-app folder was empty. Nothing got dowloaded.

Can anyone please help me with it ?

PS: my node.js version is 6.1.0

Eric Eric · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-24T10:59:34

That seems to be a little bug on Windows, Ubuntu worked for me.

This Issue suggests that a Node.js update to 6.2 would fix the problem.

In case it does not:

To start the app-drawer-template or the shop app you can also simply clone them from GitHub with

git clone https://github.com/Polymer/app-drawer-template.git

or

git clone https://github.com/Polymer/shop.git

After that do a bower install in the downloaded directory and run the app with polymer serve

polymer : unable initialize project from a template

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