How to generate component.json from package.json?

Question

How to generate component.json from package.json?

I install es5-shim with bower correctly with:

bower install es5-shim

But it doesn't include a main file, so when listing the sources I get an empty list:

bower list --sources
{}

I've looked into es5-shim repo and it just has a package.json which includes a definition for "main": "es5-shim.js"

How is the component.json generated?

It seems to miss the main attribute. This is the component.json I get in the components/es5-shim when installing.

node.js
npm
bower

Answer 1

Bower doesn't use package.json. Bower will fall back and generate a component.json from the repo name and git tag version when a repo doesn't have a component.json, which is why it doesn't have a main attribute.