[hoodie-boilerplate] different templates for new app's about discussion

[svnlto]

/cc @gr2m @caolan @janl

[gr2m]

I think this goes beyond our scope. I'd make the default app really really good and keep the way to use custom templates as we have today. But beyond that, I'd rather create yeoman generators, that appears to be the right tool for that in my opinion

[svnlto]

@gr2m assuming everybody's got the yo command installed. Which I don't for example.

[janl]

I like to have different examples, but I think hoodie new should be a single, minimal and tight first run experience.

But we can make the different templates more obvious. Maybe we can publish them on npm as well and then have a hoodie-app-template registry.

[zoepage]

@jan Would it make sense using hoodie new app -t "usr/repo" for that?

[svnlto]

Would it make sense using hoodie new app -t "usr/repo" for that?

It's how it'd work currently.

[janl]

yeah, we could make hoodie new app -t without an argument list the available ones or something

[zoepage]

that's what i was thinking about! :)

[gr2m]

+1 on hoodie new app -t listing selected templates

[zoepage]

we should also make sure it's documented somewhere.
http://hood.ie/#installation maybe?

[svnlto]

I'd like to start documenting hoodie-cli's features in the projects readme, which would mean presenting the output of hoodie command -h nicely as people don't seem to know that they can use the -h command, event tho it's documented.

Meaning, I wouldn't necessarily put it on the website?

[zoepage]

It's the first place everybody is looking, when they make a installation for the first time.
They should see at least that they can install different templates / how to get help. When you are familiar with things like Terminal / bash, you know -h, but now everybody does. We should help the users to help themselves

[janl]

Yeah I agree, this should at least have a teaser somewhere on the website.