Vaadin Designer Paths

Gentlfolk,
I’m new to Vaadin Designer and trying to get my paths setup so they work consistently.

The designer generates a lot of relative paths (…/…/…/bower…)

I really don’t like relative paths as I find them rather brittle and its hard to work out exactly where they are pointing to.

Is there some what that I can use absolute paths that will work in design and dev/prodution mode?

It looks like in dev/production frontend:// points to the correct place but vaadin designer doesn’t seem to like frontend://

Is there a better way to do this?

FYI I’m having to use intellij for running designer and eclipse for dev as Vaadin Designer in eclipse just crashes.