title: “EMALFORMED Failed to read bower.json” "unexpected token /"
body: <p>i rather new to mean stack and i'm trying to pull some components using bower. </p>
  
  <p>I have my .bowerrc file which gives the path for installation.</p>
  
  <pre><code>//.bowerrc
   {
      "directory": "public/libs"
   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and i have my bower.json file which looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// bower.json
  {
      "name": "starter-node-angular",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "dependencies": {
          "bootstrap": "latest",
          "font-awesome": "latest",
          "animate.css": "latest",
          "angular": "latest",
          "angular-route": "latest"   
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i installed bower i had no problem and even the bower search is working perfect.
  when I'm running the command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bower install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get the following message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Failed to read + path\bower.json
  
  Unexpected token /
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get the same message when I'm trying:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bower install jquery
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to change the encoding of file and used json online validation tool.</p>
  
  <p>any ideas??</p>