[JS] npm packages depends on outdated flatbuffers-esm

[tarekrached]

Not sure what the root cause is here, or if this is even a real issue, but I figured I'd flag it...

It looks like the apache-arrow npm package (and the @apache-arrow/* packages) are pointing at an out of date fork of flatbuffers from @trxcllnt, which can be seen with:

npm view apache-arrow@0.3.1 dependencies.flatbuffers

which shows github:trxcllnt/flatbuffers-esm instead of 1.9.0, which is what js/package.json leads me to believe it should be.

The description of the trxcllnt/flatbuffers-esm repo says:

temporary repo to use in Arrow until google/flatbuffers#4504 is merged

That PR was merged on Dec 1, 2017, so I think we're good to point back at mainline flatbuffers.

Since the package.json in this repo doesn't match that on npm, I'm guessing this is a packaging / deployment issue. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help resolve this.

[trxcllnt]

Yep, we've updated the dependency master and it will go out in the next release.

[tarekrached]

👍 fantastic - thanks for the update.