Generating configs from templates

[asappresearch]

Generating configs from templates

[jeremyasapp]

The big question for me here is: do we need to add any code to Flambé? Seems like we can just provide a small tutorial that explains how you can use Jinja to do this

[jeremyasapp]

I like the idea of templating, but I don't really think this requires additional code, which is kind of cool :)

Why not include the function I wrote above?

All of the code is super boilerplate. Plus, you can control how the config is written back to disk (removing spaces, comments, etc.).

For me, the question is: does this help people to get started with/fall more in love with flambé, and at what cost?

The answer is: yes, and at a very small one of a single helper.

[jeremyasapp]

Whether we add this snippet to the code or the docs what does it change?

[jeremyasapp]

They will still need to run a script on their template

[jeremyasapp]

Just to clarify I do want to keep your snippet! I just think it's so small it can just go in a tutorial directly. Do you think there is a strong reason to put it in the repo? If so, we can PR it in flambe.utils :)

[nmatthews-asapp]

I think it would be fine to add to utils - but there is one cost: we add jinja as a dependency

[jeremyasapp]

@nmatthews-asapp it's already a flask dependency, which is a dependency of ours (at least until we make the website a different repo or something)

[jeremyasapp]

@williamabrwolf want to make a PR into flambe.utils?