switch from yarn to npm - other minor updates

client/README.md

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-# Starter project for React
-- [Typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
-- [React 16](https://reactjs.org/)
-- [React Router 4](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/)
-- [Webpack 3](https://webpack.js.org/)
-- [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/)
-
-## Commands
-- yarn install
-- yarn start
-
-http://localhost:8080
-
-## Note
-There is currently a bug with yarn not updating package.json when upgrading packages. 
-[See more here](https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2042#issuecomment-269601927). 
-I added the `update-latest` script in package.json for a temporary fix.

client/app/pages/forum/forum.tsx

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export class Forum extends React.Component<Props, State> {
 
   private onSearch(event: any) {
     event.preventDefault();
-    const threads = filter(cloneDeep(this.state.initialThreads), (t) => {
+    const threads: any = filter(cloneDeep(this.state.initialThreads), (t) => {
       return t.title.toLowerCase().match(this.state.searchText.toLowerCase());
     });
 

client/app/pages/realms/realms.tsx

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export class Realms extends React.Component<Props, State> {
       const realms = chain(res)
         .filter({ category: 'realm' })
         .orderBy(['title'])
-        .value();
+        .value() as CategoryModel[];
       this.setState({ realms });
     } catch (e) {
       console.error(e);

client/package.json

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
     "build": "webpack -p --progress --colors",
     "dev": "webpack --progress --colors --watch",
     "c9": "webpack-dev-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --inline --history-api-fallback",
-    "start": "webpack-dev-server --inline --history-api-fallback",
-    "update-latest": "rm -rf node_modules && rm yarn.lock && ncu --upgrade --upgradeAll && yarn install"
+    "start": "webpack-dev-server --inline --history-api-fallback"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@types/fingerprintjs2": "^1.5.1",