Publish to NPM about ui-layout

[jbro-io]

Why would you be installing this via NPM instead of Bower? The bower branch is where al the dist files are published to, so you should never be linking to the master branch.

[alvint]

@jbroquist - The OP answered that question (why NPM) in his original comment, and it's a very good reason. Additionally in my case I use Browserify to package the javascript in my HTML projects (along with Gulp to package the CSS). This works with everything else in the Angular bullpen.

I was very excited to use this package in my projects, but there's no way on Earth I'm going to add a second dependency system and have some deps work one way and other deps work another way just to get it. Other people have to maintain my projects after I'm done writing them, so I don't want to add extra complexity. Bower is so 2013, Grandpa! Please reconsider this.

[alvint]

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[alvint]

@maxkorp - How do you set it to the GitHub path?

[jbro-io]

@alvint see my response in #72

[alvint]

@jbroquist - I see! Are there any instructions on the technique @maxkorp mentioned?

[maxkorp]

Sorry, i've been offline a bit.
To reference a specific commit or tag in your package.json so that NPM can just pull it from github, you have to reference owner/repository#oid, so your dependencies in package.json would look like

"dependencies": {
  ...
  "ui-layout": "angular-ui/ui-layout#352bd3c67f2cd5af2be4ab884b91903946409e99",
  ...
}

where 352bd3c67f2cd5af2be4ab884b91903946409e99 points to the commit where it was upgraded to 1.0.5, in my case. You have to dig around a bit because simply using the tags put up point to the bower branch, which doesnt include the package.json, so you need to use the master branch which leaves it intact. Unfortunately, that doesnt include the build, so you need to manually cd in and build it.

As i said in the issue tagged directly above this comment for ui bootstrap, this is best resolved by adding to the angular-ui publishing platform, but I just haven't had the time.

[maxkorp]

For reference: angular-ui/angular-ui-publisher#3