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marcglasberg / async_redux

Flutter Package: A Redux version tailored for Flutter, which is easy to learn, to use, to test, and has no boilerplate. Allows for both sync and async reducers.
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Boilerplate generator #132

Closed hummy123 closed 2 years ago

hummy123 commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

This is a cool package. I migrated to this from flutter_redux and appreciate the simplicity in writing reducers. It takes a lot less time and cleans up my file structure quite a bit. I also appreciate how quickly it migrated to Flutter 3.0.

Anyway, I made a very simple boilerplate generator (need to expand on it when I have time) for this package.

The generator just creates files containing the outlines of a Connector, Vm, Factory and a Pure Widget and save them in a file to reduce repetitive typing. It's very simple.

You shouldn't expect it to know that a function parameter shouldn't be added to the equals parameter list, for example., but it should save time for anyone who uses it.

It automatically implements/encourages the connected widget pattern as well, to help maintainability and good design.

Here is the link: https://async-redux-generator.herokuapp.com/ .

If my simple generator can get a shout-out in the readme, that would make me happy, but I understand people are likely to think "if this is Redux without the boilerplate, why do I need a code generator?". I was just tired of repeating the steps: create connector -> create Vm -> create factory -> connect to widget.

Have a nice day, Humza

marcglasberg commented 2 years ago

Hi Humza,

I think this is a very good idea, but not as an external generator. In IntelliJ we have "Live Templates" to do something similar. Or I was also thinking of building an IntelliJ plugin that could do that. Do you use IntelliJ?

hummy123 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the prompt response Marc. I think you are right that an IDE plugin would be better if possible.

I'm not 100% sure if an Intellij plugin can take input such as parameter names/types to add in the appropriate places (like the ViewModel), but that might be my lack of experience speaking as I am mainly thinking of the flutter_bloc plugin for Intellij. I'll try taking a look at plugin capabilities.