Create a Neighbourhoods / We / hREA template

[pospi]

Curious on everybody's thoughts as to the utility of having this as a starter kit. For the most part I have been keeping a separate branch with parity to https://github.com/neighbour-hoods/applet-template, but given some of the more significant divergences in code structure recently I am going to start keeping this issue as a list of cleanup things to apply back to the base template before any possible future release.

Until then app-template should be considered as incomplete / unpolished work that will not have all of the developer ergonomics & code quality improvements of the main branch.

• [ ] Apollo context bindings cleanup per ea00d05
• [ ] config vars cleanup per 5f99cf5
• [ ] test scripts (suggest build test & Jest for component correctness)
• [ ] Vite-based build pipeline

[adaburrows]

I've been floating the idea of having a template library that we'd use with hygen that could have all sorts of things like this in it. Need to add hREA? Just add it through hygen. Need to make a new Lit component that adheres to our standards (like theming with the css variables we haven't yet figured out)? Just use the templates. I think we can start with a few things like making an NH-We applet, making components, adding in new zomes, and adding in hREA. Then we can see what other use cases come up.

I suggest hygen, because it seems a little bit more developed than the scaffolding tools being developed by Holochain. It supports more use cases so far and doesn't have code in filenames. What do you think?

[pospi]

Funny (and validating)- there were some hygen templates in the hREA repo initially with this intention. Never really took off, I think mainly because the code was in such flux and so keeping them updated was a chore. Definitely one of the better templating frameworks I have used but I do think some careful thought is needed as to how to construct & compose generators- if they try to do too much they end up under-utilised.