Which style of template

[gregglind]

Possibilities:

1. Fork and clone, write over everything
2. Fork and clone, remove .git
3. Create-react-app style command line tool. (npm install -g study-init)
4. have a '/your-addon' directory.

Let's try some things.

[pdehaan]

I like the create-react-app idea since it may play nicer w/ npx and npm just added support for scaffolding projects using npm init and specifying an initializer:

$ npm init react-app ./my-react-app 

(where "react-app" is an alias for "create-react-app")

But if we created and published a module named "create-shield-study", it'd be something like: $ npm init shield-study ./secret-shield-study -y and I think it'd always pull the latest published "create-shield-study" version from npm, which means new study authors would always be getting the latest version of the template and not have to install anything globally.

Ref: mozilla/shield-studies-addon-utils#196

[gregglind]

I also just build one using plop (https://www.npmjs.com/package/plop) and found it very easy.

That init initializer looks awesome.

The revised flow would be:

npm init shield-study  --name some-project-name  # or study-addon or suggest me a thing :) 
# this call the create-shield-study package, which we have to publish.

I claim that in the stupidist forms, this is a two or 3 day project.