Installation via npm fails for 1.x branch

[Eleeleth]

Problem

Trying to install the 1.x branch or the latest 1.x tag fails due to a missing version property in the package.json file.

Replication steps

First, to make sure it's not a versioning issue on my end, the output of npm -v and node -v are as follows:

$ node -v
v8.11.1
$ npm -v
v5.8.0

Since ideally I'd like to try installing the lastest 1.x version, I attempted the install via the following command:

npm i -g https://github.com/Shopify/slate/archive/1.x.tar.gz

which produces the following:

npm ERR! Can't install https://github.com/Shopify/slate/archive/1.x.tar.gz: Missing package version

The same issue is present on the latest 1.x tag I can see, which is v1.0.0-alpha.26.

[t-kelly]

This is not how you install Slate, nor how to start a new Slate project. Please read the Getting Started section of the 1.x README.

[lock]

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