Bower Dependency

[guygastineau]

npm wont let me install bower

I am on Arch Linux with npm version: 6.12.0
It says that bower is deprecated.

Is there any way around this?
I tried to learn elm, but it is too painful coming from Haskell, so I really want to try purescript

[guygastineau]

Nevermind, somehow it just wasn't downloading it before.

I will leave this issue up as it seems like there may be a need to move away from bower before too long? IDK let me know if I should close this issue.

[mawis]

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I am thinking about this as well. The reason why I didn't change anything yet is, that the “official” PureScript QuickStart-Guide as well as the book PureScript by Example still recommend using/use bower.

I fear that changing this to spago (which is probably preferred by the PureScript community) would indeed result in a more modern PureScript setup on the one hand … but also result in more problems for beginners that try to follow the few PureScript documentation/introductions that are available.

More opinions highly appreciated!

[connorads]

@mawis I've created PR #127 to use spago instead of bower. Let me know what you think.

[icyrockcom]

Given that we're on spago now, anything outstanding here or should this be closed at this point?

[SleeplessByte]

Nope. I think this can be closed now. If not, re-open.