Update to latest Polymer using Bower

Question

I have a Polymer application which is configured as following:

My main project bower.json file:

{
  "name": "Raf",
  "authors": [
    "Raffaeu <[email protected]>"
  ],
  "description": "Test Project",
  "dependencies": {
    "polymer": "Polymer/polymer#1.2.0",
    "iron-elements": "PolymerElements/iron-elements#^1.0.8",
    "paper-elements": "PolymerElements/paper-elements#^1.0.7"
  }
}

and inside my bower_components folder I do have a polymer folder with the following JSON:

{
  "name": "polymer",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "main": [
    "polymer.html"
  ],
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "webcomponentsjs": "^0.7.2"
  }
}

Now, if I am in the root folder (where the main bower.json file is located) and I am running bower info polymer bower returns me the following list of versions:

bower cached        https://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#1.6.0
bower validate      1.6.0 against https://github.com/Polymer/polymer.git#*

{
  name: 'polymer',
  version: '1.6.0',
   ...

But if I run bower update polymer --save console returns following message and doesn't update to 1.6.0 but it stays to my current version which is 1.2.0: Unable to find a suitable version for polymer, please choose one by typing one of the numbers below:

    1) polymer#1.2.0 which resolved to 1.2.0 and is required by MyTestProject
    2) polymer#~1.2.0 which resolved to 1.2.4 and is required by paper-datatable#0.9.8
    3) polymer#^1.2.0 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by iron-behaviors#1.0.13
    4) polymer#^1.2.1 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by paper-behaviors#1.0.11
    5) polymer#^1.2.4 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by iron-menu-behavior#1.1.3
    6) polymer#^1.1.1 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by vaadin-grid#1.0.0
    7) polymer#^1.0.0 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by iron-a11y-keys-behavior#1.1.1
    8) polymer#^1.1.0 which resolved to 1.6.0 and is required by paper-dropdown-menu#1.1.3

Prefix the choice with ! to persist it to bower.json

? Answer 1

And nothing is updated. Should I manually change version to 1.6.0 inside the polymer folder then run update?

a1626 a1626 · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-03T14:29:25

you need to select !3 this will add a new object in your bower.json called resolutions with value as polymer#^1.2.0. Using ! will persist your choice in bower.json. As you are selecting first option it is taking the version from your bower.json which is set to use exact version i.e. 1.2.0.

Actually, you can select anything after 3rd option as they all are latest above mentioned version because of '^'.

Update to latest Polymer using Bower

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