Create a Yeoman generator

[rickwong]

Create a Yeoman generator

[jamesmanning]

+1 👍

[Glavin001]

+1

[mmahalwy]

+1

[mmahalwy]

@RickWong I can try to help with this. I been meaning to learn Yeoman generators.

[RickWong]

Thanks! That would be great.

[natecox]

+1 for this

[alexlafroscia]

@RickWong I'm taking a stab at making a Generator from this project right now. I'm pretty sure that the repo would need to change to make the structure that a Yeoman generator expects, though. Would you be interested in a PR that made that drastic of a change?

Basically, it would require two major changes:

1. The package.json file would need to be updated to match their requirements, which is pretty much just adding generator- in front of the name and then adding a particular keyword
2. The current root of the project would need to get moved into app/templates/ or, if you prefer the extra level of organization, into generators/app/templates/. Turns out that isn't necessary after all!

That would just be to generate this exact project using Yeoman, which would be pretty cool. There are lots of cool possibilities for new routes and stuff through Yeoman, too, if you wanted to get fancy with it 😄

[RickWong]

Hi @alexlafroscia, yes I would definitely be interested.

[alexlafroscia]

@RickWong it's possible to have the Yeoman generator in a separate repo, would you prefer that? Or adding it into this one?

[alexlafroscia]

I decided to give getting it all in one repo a shot, since that'll be simpler in the long run. You'll have to change the name of the project in the NPM registry, but that shouldn't be an issue. I think you'll probably want to have Yeoman be the default way to install the project, too, since it's a bit easier than needing to clone the repo, nuke the original .git folder and then start your new project.