erming/shout

[Discussion] shout/client dependency management

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#562 opened on Dec 22, 2015

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Description

At the moment a lot of the dependencies are outdated (Handlebars is distributed as 2.0, but the current version is 4.0.4).

Personally, I'm a fan of making the client it's own repository and adding it as a submodule to erming/shout.

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Research how to manage client dependencies using Git submodules or alternative approaches like npm workspaces. Understand the current state of shout/client dependencies and evaluate the pros and cons of making it its own repository.
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