[RFC] CLI For Starting New Projects

[ecreeth]

Getting Started

Hello everyone. My proposal to improve the developer experience is to create a simpler way to start Hack projects. This is very useful for people who are starting with hack and do not have much knowledge working with Docker, travis, etc ... Thanks!

$ hhvm new my_app
------- OR ------
$ hack new my_app

This command create a new basic Hack project

$ hhvm test

This command run the tests

$ hhvm check

This command run hh_client

$ hhvm serve

This command run hhvm -m server -p 8080

future?

$ hhvm fmt

This command run hackfmt

Options

--xhp add support for xhp --lint add support for hhast-lint

Basic Project Structure

• src
  • index.hack
• tests
  • index.hack
• .hhconfig
• composer.json
• hh_autoload.json
• hhast-lint.json
• .gitignore

[fredemmott]

I think this would be awesome in the future - though I think it's too early to implement something like this:

• what it needs to do is going to change rapidly as the ecosystem continue to evolve and stabilize
• increased adoption is not currently a goal of the project - though we anticipate it will be once the language stabilizes

I'm pretty sure we're going to want something like this when adoption is a goal, but right now it's not a good use of time, either to create or maintain.

[ecreeth]

Thanks for your feedback! I will try to get more involved in this project.