Arelia CLI (au new) does not use latest packages in new projects

@boshinski commented on Mon Jan 23 2017

I’m submitting a bug report

• Library Version: AURELIA-CLI 0.24.0

Please tell us about your environment:

• Operating System: Windows 7

• Node Version: 4.5.0

• NPM Version: 3.10.8

• JSPM OR Webpack AND Version NA

• Browser: NA

• Language: TypeScript 2.0

Current behavior: Creating a new project with aurelia-cli (“au new”) does not use the latest packages. For example, created a new TypeScript project and then ran “ncu” and it displayed the following:

aurelia-bootstrapper             ^1.0.0  →  ^2.0.1
aurelia-tools                    ^0.2.2  →  ^1.0.0
gulp-typescript                 ^2.13.6  →  ^3.1.4
gulp-tslint                      ^5.0.0  →  ^7.0.1
tslint                          ^3.11.0  →  ^4.3.1
typings                          ^1.3.0  →  ^2.1.0
karma                          ^0.13.22  →  ^1.4.0
karma-chrome-launcher            ^1.0.1  →  ^2.0.0
karma-typescript-preprocessor    ^0.2.1  →  ^0.3.1

I believe the issue also occurs in new ESNext projects as well.

Expected/desired behavior:

• What is the expected behavior? I would expect it to use the latest released versions of the packages.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? Avoid the need for the developer to manually upgrade each of these packages when creating a new Aurelia project with the CLI.

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@AshleyGrant commented on Tue Jan 24 2017

For the non-aurelia packages listed, this is expected behavior. We would not want to automatically update the package to a new major version without first testing it. That being said, we can likely update all of these dependencies after we have done some testing to make sure everything still works.

A PR for this would be greatly appreciated, but I will try to work on this on my flight today. Thanks @boshinski!

@EisenbergEffect please move this issue to the CLI repo and assign me, if possible. I’ll create a PR later today.

[JeroenVinke]

@sbolel Feel free to open a PR to the CLI so we can do a proper review. Thanks for working on this!

[s-hoff]

So far I did a full update of all packages with every project I did, all of them in TypeScript and with unit tests (using aurelia-testing). The only issue I came across is that when building, gulp-typescript gives me a deprecation warning:

gulp-typescript: ts(tsProject) has been deprecated - use .pipe(tsProject(reporter)) instead
  As of gulp-typescript 3.0, .pipe(ts(tsProject)) should be written as .pipe(tsProject()).
  More information: http://dev.ivogabe.com/gulp-typescript-3/

This is easily fixed by changing the .pipe(ts(typescriptCompiler))line to .pipe(typescriptCompiler())

Also, as far as I know, au test --watch only watches the scriptsand testdirectories anyway and we would have to run an au run --watchin parallel to get the src changes? (au build does not have a watch option)