Download template from github/git repo? about plop HOT 8 CLOSED

@davidtaboas Sorry for the delayed response. Yes, I did this by publishing my plop code as a (private) npm module. Then in each of my projects, my plopfile.js looks something like this:

module.exports = require('my-plops');

and that's it!

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is your main goal to have multiple projects use the same plop generators and templates? If so I think @nicksrandall was doing this by publishing them as an npm module. Maybe he would be kind enough to share how that approach worked for him 😄

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@davidtaboas the short answer to your question is no, plop doesn't support dynamically downloading templates when you trigger plop. However if you're looking to centralize your generators for use on multiple projects, there's a pretty nice solution to be had with npm ;-)

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@nicksrandall Thanks for that idea, actually I made a couple of plop generators (plop-react-webpack and plop-node-express) with that approach and works pretty well.

Just note, that in the generator plopfile.js, in all templateFile property I had to writte the route like that node_modules/plop-node-express/.... is that correct? I mean, another way to do it? Thanks in advance.

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@calcaide I believe right now this is the way you would do this. However, soon I'll be adding in full support for these types of approaches. The way I'm planning to do this would allow your shared plopfiles to reference everything locally like they normally would, but give the consumer plopfile control to specify where the generated files should be placed. still working out the details, but this is sort of the "next" thing on my agenda for plop after I get it integrated with node-plop

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@amwmedia Many thanks for the answer. The node-plop looks pretty cool, are you accepting contributors? Because I am interested in contribute to the project. Since I meet plop (a few weeks ago) I really fall in love with, I think is very much simpler than Yeoman. Actually, I am using Plop as a full project generator (replacing yeoman) and as micro-generator. Thank you for make Plop

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@calcaide really glad you like plop and are having good success with it. I'm always open to ideas and contributions! I would just ask that if you have an idea for a new feature, start the conversation as an issue so we can brainstorm and layout a plan for implementation.

Things that are ready to be worked on are the integration work so that plop is using node-plop internally and documentation for node-plop. Let me know how you'd like to be involved. I'm actually planning to take on this feature (sharable modules) next within node-plop... after I finish up the additional test coverage that I'm wrapping up now.

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@amwmedia ok, you are right. I thing start the conversation as an issue is perfect. I will do that to not pollute more this issue. My intention is start contributing with little things and ideas.

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