Bower dependencies are never pinned

[markfinger]

Default bower deps are currently set to

{
  // ..
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": null,
    "bootstrap": null,
    "lodash": null,
    "font-awesome": null
  }
}

This makes project initialisation easy, but it introduces a maintenance overhead as most projects have never pinned those versions.

Easiest work around is to run the following during project creation:

bower install --save jquery bootstrap lodash font-awesome

This installs the deps and will pin their versions automatically.

[markfinger]

@mrmachine assuming my suggestion is tolerable, where would be the best place to make changes to the init script?

[mrmachine]

@markfinger this is probably redundant now (or soon) -- https://github.com/ic-labs/django-icekit/blob/feature/project/icekit/bower.json ... or if we did still want to update ixc-project-template, it might be best to just include a reminder note in the stdout from startproject.sh that this should be done. Bower might not be installed when the startproject.sh script runs, so we probably can't automate it. And can we do it with just bower install -S or something, without having to explicitly mention all the packages that are included in the bower.json file?

[markfinger]

I don't think there's a way to pin the dependencies automatically without specifying them as params to bower.

As you indicated, this'll probably be redundant if bower is being included in icekit.

[markfinger]

Actually, I'll leave this open until it's been solved one way or another.

[mrmachine]

@markfinger let's just pin them in ixc-project-template, instead of leaving them open and trying to remind people to pin them when they create a project.

[markfinger]

I've pinned them to current latest