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Built-in project templates #24
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Branching from discussion #11 (comment).
This is something I want to support in a potential v2.
create-react-app my-app # default like structure like now
create-react-app my-app --from empty
create-react-app my-app --from todomvc
create-react-app my-app --from relay-starter
create-react-app my-app --from you-see-where-im-going
I’m opposed to turning this project into a code generator. However I think initial templates can be useful because they offer a nice way to “clone” examples. We could move the official React examples into this system, and libraries could provide third party “starters”.
I’m not sure this is a good idea but I’d love to be able to tell people to run create-react-app my-app --from redux-todomvc instead of telling them to clone a project, run npm install, etc.
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eanplatter commentedon Jul 19, 2016
I think it's a precarious feature because the issues you just explained.
It might be nice to merely have an empty flag and leave it at that.
lacker commentedon Jul 19, 2016
I think this would be awesome. I would totally prefer boilerplates that are using the "official react app creation setup". It's also a way for people to filter out old boilerplates - if they don't work with the most recent create-react-app, they're out of date.
It might be awkward to put a whole lot of dependencies in
create-react-appbut maybe you could have them be loaded by something likecreate-react-app MyApp --from github.com/blah/jeiowfor
create-react-app MyApp --from npm:jims-react-boilerplateinsin commentedon Jul 19, 2016
That's effectively what vue-cli does, installing boilerplates from vue-templates with some configurable bits templated.
vutran commentedon Jul 28, 2016
I could see how this would be useful (especially the
--from emptyflag) but this could become a potential gateway for a bunch of boilerplate templates.gaearon commentedon Sep 3, 2016
This would be cool but currently out of scope. We may revisit this in the future.
ericandrewlewis commentedon Jun 4, 2018
I made a little wrapper for
create-react-appthat runscreate-react-appand replacessrcwith my preferred boilerplate.