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Currently, the documentation recommends a global install of grunt-cli, bower, and coffee-script. This can be problematic for bower and coffee-script, as the developer running the command will get whatever version is current, rather than whatever version clojure-angular-seed was developer with.

The package.json file specifies a local dependency on coffee-script but not bower; this is inconsistent with asking for a global install of both.

I think the best resolution would be:

• Make package.json specific all needed NPM dependencies, including bower.
• Change the documentation to only ask for a global grunt-cli, not any other packages.

We could change this project so that it uses ClojureScript rather than CoffeeScript as the front-end scripting language. Comment and Discussion welcome.

Upsides:

• The usual arguments in favour of ClojureScript
• This project could be a good oportunity to showcase an end-to-end Clojure web-app

Downsides:

• web-developers coming into the Clojure ecosystem may not want to change both their server-side and client-side languages to Clojure all at once.

I was thinking of doing it, but thought I'd ask first in case you already have plans to do this.

Here's a decent blog post we could use as a reference.

It would be nice to be able to lein new angular and be ready to go.