Make installing react-gantry automated

[akrigline]

The latest versions of create-react-app have a npx script that installs the blank react-app. I'm not certain how this works, but it would be excellent if we could replicate this with Gantry.

Requirements:

• Ability to Install a blank, gantry inspired Application without having to clone the repo, delete git and reinitialize.
• Automatically fill out the new package.json with details from the npx command.
• [STRETCH] Allow various arguments to change the blank app's installation (i.e. withThunks, withRedux, withStorybook, withBlueprints).

NPX Blog Post

[akrigline]

To be successful, a node script should do the following to get a new project up and running without the hassle of cloning the repo, changing the directory name, and resetting the git.

1. Create a directory name as supplied by an argument.
2. Create a copy of all of the files in the gantry itself in this new directory.
3. npm install
4. git init

What this would avoid:

• Cloning this repo and then resetting git to start the a project

I wonder if there's a simple way to just create a sharable node script that would do the clone / reset git automatically, and that's the solution to this problem.

[akrigline]

Cory House's react-slingshot has a setup script that automates the process that removes .git and changes the packagejson based on user prompts, then removes the startup script itself.

We could approach this from that angle: Create a gist that will let us use npx to:

1. run git clone on this repo
2. run npm run startup which will nuke the git and change the packagejson.