Always install latest Hydrogen CLI when running create-hydrogen script

[gfscott]

WHY are these changes introduced?

People frequently get an annoying message telling them to update the package they're installing for the first time, which is wack:

WHAT is this pull request doing?

Updates the create-hydrogen package.json to always install the latest version of the Hydrogen CLI. Using a tag as a version specifier in package.json is perfectly valid and it stands to reason that if you're running the create script, then you want to install the latest dependencies.

Checklist

• I've read the Contributing Guidelines
• I've considered possible cross-platform impacts (Mac, Linux, Windows)
• I've added a changeset if this PR contains user-facing or noteworthy changes
• I've added tests to cover my changes
• I've added or updated the documentation

[github-actions]

We detected some changes in packages/*/package.json or packages/*/src, and there are no updates in the .changeset.
If the changes are user-facing and should cause a version bump, run npm run changeset add to track your changes and include them in the next release CHANGELOG.
If you are making simple updates to examples or documentation, you do not need to add a changeset.

[frandiox]

TIL!

But unsure if we can make this work without installing a remote version in our monorepo with latest 🤔

[gfscott]

(Moving here for threading)

But unsure if we can make this work without installing a remote version in our monorepo with latest 🤔

@frandiox Hm, yeah. I'm not sure what's causing the failure in CI here. But the latest tag is published by default and it's always available to install through npm:

[blittle]

@gfscott it looks like the package lock file needs to get updated. Just run npm install from the root of the project, and push the changes to the package lock.

[gfscott]

Ah right. Done!

[blittle]

Went from a one line change to over 1k 😂

[gfscott]

😂 😭
Alsooo... did it break a bunch of stuff? I see two failed actions, they seem to be related to the node version? 🤔

• https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen/actions/runs/8378036152
• https://github.com/Shopify/hydrogen/actions/runs/8378036152

[gfscott]

Yeah, I'm going to revert this. Changesets can't deal with non-semver values so this isn't going to work in practice.

We'll have to just make sure that we always bump the create-hydrogen dependency whenever there's a CLI bump. Otherwise the create flow gets out of sync. Annoying!

[michenly]

I wonder if something like link from chageset would help here

[gfscott]

Ooo that's a good thought

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