Template: Extend it to include more capabilities

[Mossaka]

Template: Extend it to include more capabilities

[danbugs]

I guess my main point is that the current new command creates a slight application that automatically adds the keyvalue interface in, which probably isn't what the user wants. In addition to that, the way we use slight http-server capability requires users to edit many files:

• rename main.rs to lib.rs
• add [lib] section to Cargo.toml
• add http-server capability
• add slight macro dependencies to Cargo.toml

This isn't a great experience imo.

I agree that users might not always want keyvalue, but that template is just the most basic one we have w/ the most basic application possible. To fit other users needs, we need to create other templates – for your example, that would be smt like http-rust.

Also, I think our current template does have the slight macro dependency already added to the Cargo.toml, and all the other changes required that you mentioned are because of recent code changes.

[danbugs]

I think slight new -n spidey -l rust -c keyvalue -s redis -v 0.4.0 is very messy and error prone.

The thing is: slight new -n [email protected] rust is not meant to be something that covers all use-cases. Instead, after running slight new, if people want to add other capabilities they can use slight add.

For example, while I was crafting my WasmIO demo, I did:

slight new -n [email protected] rust && cd wasmio-demo
cd wit && slight add [email protected]

[Mossaka]

I guess my main point is that the current new command creates a slight application that automatically adds the keyvalue interface in, which probably isn't what the user wants. In addition to that, the way we use slight http-server capability requires users to edit many files:

• rename main.rs to lib.rs
• add [lib] section to Cargo.toml
• add http-server capability
• add slight macro dependencies to Cargo.toml

This isn't a great experience imo.

[Mossaka]

this sounds good to me. I will be working on a http-server-rust template for http-server template.

Another concern of mine is how we can maintain the templates - each time we bump up the CLI version, we will have to bump up the version used in the templates. Any mistakes in this process would cause a re-deployment. Can we somehow make the dep versions in the templates aligned with CLI version automatically?