From 8f77860805cd44f7efb47c7fcddfab79189a2200 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Boodman <aaron@aaronboodman.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:43:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improve Splore build experience

---
 clients/splore/README.md | 4 ++--
 clients/splore/link.sh   | 1 +
 js2/package.json         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clients/splore/README.md b/clients/splore/README.md
index 0f549bfaa2..8ca24b3c56 100644
--- a/clients/splore/README.md
+++ b/clients/splore/README.md
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ This is a generic noms data explorer.
 
 ## Build
 
-* `./link.sh`
-* `npm install`
+* `./link.sh`  # only necessary first time, or if changes have happened in `js2`
+* `npm install`  # only necessary first time, or if deps have changed
 * `npm run build`
 
 ## Run
diff --git a/clients/splore/link.sh b/clients/splore/link.sh
index d64611d4c7..3c2dbc126b 100755
--- a/clients/splore/link.sh
+++ b/clients/splore/link.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pushd ../../js2
+npm install
 npm run build
 ./link.sh
 popd
diff --git a/js2/package.json b/js2/package.json
index 958daf7a92..23c6fb00f6 100644
--- a/js2/package.json
+++ b/js2/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     "isomorphic-fetch": "^2.2.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "babel": "^5.6.23",
+    "babel": "~5.6.23",
     "babel-eslint": "^4.1.3",
     "chai": "^3.2.0",
     "eslint": "^1.7.3",