Allow project root, app root, and .bowerrc directories for polymer-webpack-loader

[ahmadhsalim]

Allow project root, app root, and .bowerrc directories for polymer-webpack-loader

[hotforfeature]

I think that'd be entirely possible. I'll reopen this and adjust the title to track the work

[ahmadhsalim]

Crap. It's my bad. My bower_components folder was in a wrong directory. I spent the entire day trying to figure this out. Finally figured it out by looking at the angular-polymer-starter-kit.

[hotforfeature]

Verified the patch script works in my starter kit and published in v2.0.2!

I do kind of like having bower_components/ in the project root next to node_modules/, it's a much more familiar place coming from Polymer.

[hotforfeature]

Can you try running the patch cli script? Sounds like the webpack loader isn't added to Angular.

node node_modules/@codebakery/origami/patch-cli.js

[hotforfeature]

Does the readme need to be more clear about why the bower folder needs to be in a certain directory? I only instruct the developer to do so in https://github.com/hotforfeature/origami#2-use-bower-to-add-elements without a real reason.

Alternatively, did you have your bower folder in the default root directory? I may be able to modify the patch script to support either the root folder or the src folder.

[ahmadhsalim]

I'm setting it up on a Laravel application so I actually put the bower inside the public folder, which is how Polymer does it. Maybe you could specifically mention that part. I didn't actually catch the "app's root" part specified in the readme, I just assumed its the usual public folder.
But the way you have done is more preferable to me, because I'd like the vendor codes to be outside of public folder.

FYI: I'm creating a boilerplate with Laravel+Angular+Polymer.

[hotforfeature]

I looked at the Angular CLI code, and it does look like there is a variable exposed for both the app's root and the project's root directory. I can easily modify the patch script to include both when webpack is searching for bower modules.

[ahmadhsalim]

Would it be possible to get the bower folder straight from the .bowerrc file?

[hotforfeature]

Hm, almost verified. I need to add documentation about why bower_components/ should be in the app's folder somewhere if the app root isn't the same as the project root. It's needed if you refer to the components in the index.html, which I recommend for the webcomponents loader.