Create yeoman template/generator for loopback-next

[kjdelisle]

Even though parts of loopback-next are still in flux, I think it would be a good idea to begin building up a generator to rapidly spin up apps, rather than relying on the example as a template to bootstrap our own work.

This would be a good opportunity to properly dogfood the generator ourselves, as well as the design.

Questions

• Do we have a "best practice" or default we'd like to follow for how the generated applications organize their resources? (Will we mimic [email protected]?)
• Would we want to change generator-loopback to accept command line arguments/environment variables? (Useful for automated testing)
• Would we create a new template rather than use the existing one?

Considerations

• We currently have some tech debt to clean up for https://github.com/strongloop/generator-loopback

[kjdelisle]

cc @bajtos @raymondfeng @ritch @superkhau @rashmihunt

[superkhau]

@kjdelisle I've been discussing some of the CLI experience with @ritch for things that should happen soon, so +1 from me. However, I'm not sure if this should happen in the current generator/yeoman, etc.

[bajtos]

My opinion:

• +1 for creating a project template for loopback.next projects.
• -1 for using yeoman, unless we are going to include loopback.next project template in the existing loopback-cli. In the long term, we need to rework loopback-cli to not depend on yeoman, see Refactor to play well with Yeoman's run loop strongloop/generator-loopback#139

Another thing to consider: integration with APIC Editor, possibly via loopback-workspace.

[dhmlau]

@kjdelisle, looks like we might need a spike to see what are the Yeoman equivalent we could possibly use for interactive command line user interfaces. Are you ok to change this as a spike?

@bajtos mentioned Inquirer in strongloop/generator-loopback#139.

cc @rashmihunt

[dhmlau]

duplicate of #697 ?

[kjdelisle]

Closing as complete, see https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/tree/master/packages/cli