create-hydrogen-app typescript template

[kcarra]

Wanted to get a discussion going around the addition of adding a typescript template to the create-hydrogen-app package. I've seen other discussions on here about doing something similar, and it seems like this was thrown around with the h2 cli. I've been hacking away at a forked repo on a possible implementation but want to get some input before making to many assumptions.

Questions I would be interested in getting feedback on:

1. Is this currently being worked on by the hydrogen team or would the team appreciate offloading this work onto the open source community?
2. Do we want a one for one match of the template-hydrogen-default template but with typescript? Or would a slimmed down version of this template suffice? eg. the hello world template but in typescript.
3. The use of enquirer or --template hello-world-template for user input? Since enquirer is already being used I'm leaning towards using it for template selection to reduce documentation.
   
4. Would the hydrogen team want to update the typescript template with new releases?

[kcarra]

If anyone is interested more in this I put a draft pr up that I'll most likely continue hacking away on unless this is something the core team is working on

[frandiox]

@cartogram I know you were working on a TS example but I'm not sure about templates. Do you know what are the latest updates on that front?

[cartogram]

Yeah, the example is done here. I wanted to see us provide a minimal TS example, if nothing else. That said, I think a typescript template is something that is on our mind, but will let @benjaminsehl comment as he has a bit more context on the templates.

Also, @kcarra I wouldn't suggest making any changes to the yarn create hydrogen-app flow because we are removing that entire package. But if the template is there, it will be an option in our new CLI in the coming weeks.

[benjaminsehl]

@kcarra — we're doing an overhaul of the Demo Store (default) template. It will be in JS only at launch but certainly would love to have a TS version. Should have it ready in the next few weeks. Ultimately would love to have a TS option across the board.

[kcarra]

@cartogram @benjaminsehl good to know, as I was originally poking around in the create-hydrogen-app package. My initial thoughts for a ts template was to actually create a separate template for the ts implementation of hello-world. After messing around with that it seemed like a good option could be to just programmatically rename the .jsx files to .tsx same with .js => .ts and generate a tsconfig similarly to how CRA does it for their ts template. This approach may need to be more complex with the demo store template, but I'll wait until the overhaul comes out 🙂