What's the state of custom templates?

[tunnckoCore]

Hi there 👋

We were talking about that before, but didn't remember where it was and what issues there had. But didn't follow what's up for awhile, so directly asking: how can we customize the templates of the generators, can we? Where to place them, in what structure?

I have personal streaming scaffolder, which is enough in most cases, but probably i want to start using Generate and i can't until i can customize the templates, because don't want to stick to the default ones. With verb it's easy, because it's just an option "layout": "empty", so that's why integrated it and using it for last year (or probably more; we waiting v0.9 finally ;p).

I'm going through very big changes around my profile and packages, so whole month i'll update all of my ~350 packages and will move most of them to @tunnckoCore organization. I want to unify everything.

[jonschlinkert]

We've been using them since the beginning. I think there was a bug with nvm that was resolved.

I'm pretty sure you can add templates to the ~/templates directory. Dotfile templates are prefixed with _, like _gitignore, to prevent them from being confused with real dotfiles. The goal was to make the directory customizable. We might have enabled that already, sorry I haven't had a chance to check and I don't remember if I actually published the code to do that.

[tunnckoCore]

Hm. Yea it was something like that, really.

As about the place of ~/templates, I believe that we discussed that too and was thinking to be 1) hidden or inside the ~/.data-store. (btw not to mention that someone makes .date-store too ;d).

But beside that fact that i probably should ignore, what should be the structure of that folder? Is it something like below?

templates/
- generate-package/templates/
- generate-project/templates/
- generate-git/templates/