dogfood

#dogfood a scaffolder that feeds the dog(stack)

PRIOR ART

• initialize-project
• uify

PURPOSE

• cli tool for scaffolding out a dogstack app
• cli tool for generating new 'concepts' for a dogstack app (concept == folder structure for each 'piece' of the app)

for now, pretty much a rip of initialize-project but to use dogstack, i'll play around with it over time

NOTES

• to clarify: a 'concept' is a opinionated folder structure for collecting related files together
  • but not in a rails way (where all controllers are grouped, all models are grouped etc): instead, all the files related to expressing a concept within your app are gathered under a named folder
  • i.e. a 'profiles' concept, which houses the UI (containers / components), the reducer, the actions etc that are needed to implement profiles
  • (nb. this doesn't mean that some concepts don't rely on files from other concepts)
• at the moment, doesn't wire up any of the concepts to the top-level app
• includes the core libs that dogstack itself uses, as part of the package.json (unsure if that's good... could expose them instead through dogstack)
• doesn't wire up any HTML for a new app: this is deliberate for now, as i expect i'll create a module dogfood that will do server spinning up (and will make static HTML generation unnecessary)
  • for now just create an index.html at the top-level with a main element and a script tag with src="bundle.js"
• doesn't do any git user stuff that initialize-project does, as of yet

API

install globally to use: npm install -g dogfood

• generate a new dogstack app: dogfood -a -n NAME -d DIRECTORY
• generate a new dogstack concept: dogfood -n NAME -d DIRECTORY

IDEAS

• in the future, this will probably need to be able to spin up dogstack and doghouse apps (client and server)
• fork of copy-template-dir so that it can generate filenames named after the name arg?
• what about easy deployment handling? is that a different module? (dogrocket? dogwheels?)