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This adds some missing npm dependencies for CSS preprocessors

Notable Changes

Webpack

• No more Bower
• Webpack is a Module Bundler for the front-end.
• Everything starts in client/app.js. It imports (using CommonJS / ES2015 imports) everything else needed from there.
• Whenever we create a new Angular 1 module, we export its name, and import that name in another module up the tree, all the way to client/app.js. This design pattern allows for easy lazy-loading.

Gulp v Grunt

Grunt has been removed.

• Gulp is significantly faster to run
• Gulp focuses on programmatic configuration, which makes it a breeze to configure compared to Grunt's JSON-config-focused configuration.
• Gulp development is much more active, with Gulp 4.0.0 hopefully being released soon.

ESLint

JSHint + JSCS have been replaced with ESLint. ESLint provides a gigantic amount of rules, and is easily pluggable with many plugins. It uses Espree. Also, JSCS has merged with ESLint.

Types

Flow support has been added. TypeScript type errors have been fixed.

Async/Sync Auth methods

The following methods from the client Auth service have been split into two: getCurrentUser, isLoggedIn, hasRole, isAdmin. The reason that these methods could be both synchronous and asynchronous depending on how many arguments were passed is because they were called from Angular templates. Now, the Angular templates call the sync form of these methods (e.x. getCurrentUserSync), and the original functions are now only async.

Constants

The task runner no longer takes care of creating an Angular module for config constants. It is taken care of by webpack now (the shared.js files is now just required)

Endpoint PUT/PATCH

PUT now defaults to an upsert. PATCH now actually does an HTTP PATCH.

-Livereload +Browsersync

Livereload has been removed in favor of Browsersync

A special thanks to our backers

Thank you to all of those that helped make this release possible by contributing to our Open Collective!

• Josh Lavely
• Marinus Klap
• Alexandre SIRKO
• Iñigo Beitia
• Adam Barthelson
• Rajendra Jagad
• Paul Jaworski
• Andy Smircich
• Mahima Sivasankaran
• i done this

Bug Fixes

• ie: IE11 log in works for ports 80 and 443 (414b80a), closes #1880 #1896

Bug Fixes

• gen:app: fix insight askPermission (f6f1fb6), closes #1889