bower - How do I name the .bowerrc file?

Question

This MEAN-stack tutorial describes using Bower to install AngularJS in your public folder. One of the steps describes creating a file called ".bowerrc" in your test-app folder. However, Windows won't let you create a file without a name. How do I accomplish this on a Windows system?

Answer 1

on the command line (make sure to cd into your working directory), issue this command:

touch .bowerrc

This will also work for other files common to webdev like .htaccess and .gitignore

Note: If you haven't installed git bash for windows, you may not have support for the touch command. In that case (as mentioned in one of the comments here), the easiest way to accomplish this is via the cli with:

echo "" > .bowerrc