Investigate yeoman about hackathon-starter HOT 4 CLOSED

I have looked at yeoman. It's a nice tool for sure, but it doesn't fit very well with the current project configuration. For one, it add extra complexity of requiring users to install Yeoman.

I personally prefer another approach you have proposed on Hacker News - to have a config that enables/disables OAuth providers and other settings.

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Extra complexity of requring users to install Yeoman? I'm pretty sure this is less code and typing (copying/pasting):

npm install -g generator-hackathon-starter
yo hackathon-starter

than:

git clone --depth=1 [email protected]:sahat/hackathon-starter.git my-project
cd my-project
npm install

Plus it then gives you the configuration prompts so users can easily customize their project without having to setup/figure out a config file.

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@eddiemonge it is not about code complexity, or which option takes more typing, but about requiring users to have yet another tool to get started.

I want this to be as easy as possible. Clone the repo, install the dependencies and start the app.

The same reason I don't want to use Redis for sessions, as that will require users to download & install Redis, and then have it running, in addition to MongoDB.

Besides, not everyone uses Yeoman. And if I use Yeoman, someone will come here and say "Why didn't you use Brunch because it's better than Yeoman at X,Y,Z."

Update: @eddiemonge I know that having a scaffolding tool, be it Brunch, Loom or Yeoman, will allow you to customize the boilerplate just for your needs (by checking or unchecking APIs you want or don't want through a step by step wizard). Maybe in the future, if there is a demand for it, I could attempt creating a yeoman generator, but for now it's best to leave it as is.

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@sahat totally fair 👍

and hey, if one of us in the peanut gallery feels strongly enough about it, we can just create it and drop a message in here :)

Thanks for the rad tooling

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