Are these Storefront templates abandoned?

[KariNarhi]

Short explanation

I cloned the master/main branch and the template was just broken.

The template did not want to install, without using --legacy-peer-deps and even then the app did not start.

Just lots of errors about many missing variables or type errors and other critical parts being wrong.

The latest commit is 4 - 5 months old and some commits even 2 years or older.

I know that the actual Vendure API server is the main product and devs are most likely focused on that, especially now that the new version was recently released.

Suggestions and wishes

• Jump this starter to the latest Angular version and change the Angular Universal package to the new Angular SSR.

• Refactor from modules to standalone.

• Implement missing/broken features or at least remove incomplete solutions and provide a base to start with.

• Also, Karma is deprecated for testing, so I recommend trying out Jest to replace Jasmine/Karma combo.

[michaelbromley]

Not abandoned but you are correct that our major focus is on the backend part, as that is our actual product.

Your suggestions are exactly aligned with mine. We would love community support with these storefronts - the scope of them does not need to grow, they basically just need some care-taking and maintenance.

[KariNarhi]

FYI, in the apollo-client-provider.ts -file, in the APOLLO_CLIENT_PROVIDER -FactoryProvider's deps,
there is a [new Optional(), REQUEST] which I replaced in my updated Storefront with request from express (since nguniversal/express-engine is deprecated).

This broke my Angular Material and other functionality for some reason, so I just removed that part.
I don't even know what that [new Optional(), REQUEST] was supposed to do in the old version.

Just a little tip when someone updates the Angular-starter here.