Outside of project generator

[jakecraige]

Currently the generators only work inside of projects. I like the idea of having an outside of project generator. The main use for this I see is that it would allow "project generators". #1374 brought this to mind

Something like that would be useful to me with my cordova project, and it seems like there could be other cases for wanting to run a generator with blueprints to create a project with some extra files.

My current setup is:

ember new my-app
npm install --save-dev ember-cli-cordova
ember cordova:init com.whatever.my-app

An outside of project generator would allow:

ember generate cordova my-app com.whatever.my-app

Needs more thought but I'm curious what you guys think.

[rwjblue]

Pretty sure that the generator/blueprint can say that it is available outside the project.

[jakecraige]

Can it? as the generate command itself only works within a project: https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-cli/blob/master/lib/commands/generate.js#L12

[rwjblue]

Crap, perhaps that is not true, maybe I was thinking of command's being available inside and outside of a project.

[rwjblue]

The generate command can be changed to allow this, but without a project's package.json how would you add your addon?

[jakecraige]

@rjackson Yeah that's the part I'm not sure on. If there is a way we could detect the addon. I'd rather them not have to be installed globally.

Maybe some sort of --blueprint option to specify a remote url, and you could provide an npm package name, gh or something? (similar to rails templates)

[stefanpenner]

👍 --blueprint <uri> ala rails templates

example ember new --blueprint http://poeticsystems.com/ember-cli-cordova.js

[stefanpenner]

closing in-favor of --blueprint uri