Questioning architectural decisions wrt skeleton generator

[webknjaz]

Hi,

Why have own CLI, when cookiecutter does exactly the same?

I see why you make a dir structure template, but why reinvent the wheel with a renderer?

I suggest using a mainstream thing because otherwise, you end up maintaining yet another template rendering CLI instead of actual useful content (project boilerplate template).

cc @Arfey @jettify @asvetlov

[jettify]

From a user perspective, I do not care about, how we template project, I care about the result. There is very little code that does template anyway, easy to read.

So if you have a strong opinion there I guess you can team up with @Arfey and port to cookiecutter. For me project does what I need...

[asvetlov]

I have no strong opinion too. If cookie-cutter simplifies maintenance -- let's consider to use it. If no -- let's keep everything as is.

[webknjaz]

Cookiecutter: 1) Simplifies maintenance 2) Is possibly already installed on machines of ppl who are already used to be starting with project templates 3) Has testing hooks ecosystem for templates 4) Is a de-facto standard

[asvetlov]

@Arfey is the project maintainer. I think he should decide. My hope is not to touch this repo at all ;)

[Arfey]

@webknjaz I needed flexibility, and own cli are the best thing when u don't know what you want to get 😊 Now, i need:

• tests
• conditions directories (when u use --without-postgres we don't need to use some directories)

if cookiecutter doesn't have problem with second, i agree that will be better rewrite to cookiecutter.

[webknjaz]

Yes, there's conditionals available in cookiecutter + you can define hooks. For tests I think the plugin is called pytest-cookies (I can look that up in some of my projects if needed).

[jettify]

I like having pip install create-aio-app is such mode supported by cookiecutter?

[webknjaz]

@Arfey https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter/issues/723

[webknjaz]

@jettify it would be pip install cookiecutter and then cookiecutter install <this repo>

[webknjaz]

I guess you could wrap that into a package, but I don't see a point.

[asvetlov]

cookiecutter could be used as a library I guess to keep create-aio-app as an executable script

[webknjaz]

It would be odd though. Your script would be

alias create-aio-app='cookiecutter this-repo'

[asvetlov]

pip install <shell alias>? 8-)

[Arfey]

We can create cookiecutter package and for scripts use same as below

from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter

cookiecutter('cookiecutter-pypackage/create-aio-app')

and handle params for configuring of cookiecutter