Starter app includes outdated bower, fails to build

[davedawkins]

The error you get is as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51020317/einvres-request-to-https-bower-herokuapp-com-packages-failed-with-502

The preferred solution is to upgrade bower globally, which fails because the locally installed version is used instead.

I think this app needs to either remove the "bower" dependency in package.json, or update the version from 1.7.9 to 1.8