[IMPORTANT] Decoupling from Node.Js

[caffeine-addictt]

Hello developers! I want to talk about how I want to continue this project for v2.0 and beyond.

Goal with the project

Making a lot of repositories over the past few months, I realized how tedious setting up everything is, and that is why I created this repository. I wanted to alleviate this painpoint for myself and hopefully for other developers as well. I want this project to be able to work for everyone and not require special tools to get this running. I want a community to be able to easily create and share repository styles - and Node.Js ain't going to cut it.

The solution? Distributed Binaries! They are cross-platform and not tied to any specific language, can be easily installed and ran. Doing things this way will also make this project much easier to maintain.

Contributing

Please direct all PRs to v2 branch

The plan

Language: GOlang.

I want people to be able to create their own repository styles and this repository will serve as a "default style" per say. The tool will be able to pull git repositories and automate most if not all the setup needed. A community style can be chosen with a flag to the tool. Something like proj --repo https://github.com/org/repo-style etc. Also a -d/--directory flag for nested style support.

Spec

• By default, we only provide official styles, unless --repo is provided then we consider -d as well.
• Each style should contain a template.json file (type structure to be provided in this repo root and hopefully pushed to global json linting scope)
• Parser feature for the template.json
• Documentation (i need so much help for this 🙏🏻)
• Testing for Linux, Windows and Darwin #26
• Streaming file content #46
• Ability to specify license #56

template.json
{
    "name": "template name",
    "setup": {
        "linux": "path/to/file.sh",
        "windows": "path/to/file.bat"
    },
    "ignore": [
        "path/to/file",
        "path/to/dir",
        "path/to/files/*",
        "!path/to/files/not/to/ignore"
    ],
    "labels": {
        "my feature": "my color"
    },
    "prompts": {
        "my templated": "Text to prompt user with"
    },
    "styles": {
        "my style name": {
            "source": "path/to/style/dir/with/templatejson",
            "setup": {
                "linux": "path/to/file.sh",
                "windows": "path/to/file.bat"
           },
           "ignore": [
                "path/to/file",
                "path/to/dir",
                "path/to/files/*",
                "!path/to/files/not/to/ignore"
            ],
            "labels": {
                "my feature": "my color"
            },
            "prompts": {
                "my templated": "Text to prompt user with"
            }
        }
    }
}

file structure

project/
    template.json

OR (with -d option)

project/
    template/
        template.json

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I'm very open and looking for contributors to help out. (please 🙏🏻)