Installation Failing - ENOENT No bower.json present

Hello

On running composer.phar create-project Vardot/varbase-project:^8.4.06 varbase --no-interaction

bash message:

Varbase > env:

     [echo] Found Drush: /..../varbase/bin/drush
     [echo] Found Composer:
     [echo] Found NPM: /usr/local/bin/npm
     [echo] Found rsync: /usr/bin/rsync

Varbase > push:


> @ install-libraries /..../varbase
> npm install && bower install

npm WARN deprecated bower@1.7.9: ..psst! While Bower is maintained, we recommend Yarn and Webpack for *new* front-end projects! Yarn's advantage is security and reliability, and Webpack's is support for both CommonJS and AMD projects. Currently there's no migration path, but please help to create it: https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/2467
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
added 1 package in 7.504s
bower                           ENOENT No bower.json present
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! @ install-libraries: `npm install && bower install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the @ install-libraries script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /..../.npm/_logs/2017-08-10T18_32_29_276Z-debug.log
 [filesync] /usr/bin/rsync -rpKzl --exclude=".idea" --exclude="bin" --exclude="build.xml" --exclude=".git" --exclude=".gitignore" --exclude="docroot" --exclude="karma.conf.js" --exclude="*.make" --exclude="node_modules" --exclude=".travis.yml" --exclude="vendor" "." "docroot/profiles/varbase" 2>&1
 [filesync]

BUILD FINISHED

Total time: 10.9104 seconds

npm debug log:

9 verbose lifecycle @~install-libraries: CWD: /.../verbase
10 silly lifecycle @~install-libraries: Args: [ '-c', 'npm install && bower install' ]
11 silly lifecycle @~install-libraries: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle @~install-libraries: Failed to exec install-libraries script
13 verbose stack Error: @ install-libraries: `npm install && bower install`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:289:16)
13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:213:7)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:927:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
14 verbose pkgid @
15 verbose cwd /.../verbase
16 verbose Darwin 16.6.0
17 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.3.0/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "install-libraries"
18 verbose node v8.3.0
19 verbose npm  v5.3.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error @ install-libraries: `npm install && bower install`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the @ install-libraries script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

These are ther version number i use
npm -v 5.3.0
node -v v8.3.0
bower -v 1.8.0