Truffle Box Registry v2 PoC

This is a proof-of-concept to explore a better unboxing system for Truffle projects.

The primary pain-point we are experiencing is that every time someone wants to submit a new box, they have too manually email us. Rather, this should be a PR that simplifies and makes the whole process more transparent and easier to manage as well.

Prior art: Brunch's skeleton system

Here's a quick summary:

1. Have a repo that hosts a skeletons.json file listing out each skeleton (see below).
2. On unboxing, look up skeletons.json, and simply run exec("git clone " + url)
3. Generate a frontend by reading from skeletons.json

Example skeletons.json entry:

{
    "title": "React",
    "url": "brunch/with-react",
    "technologies": "Babel, ES6, React",
    "description": "Modern skeleton with React library.",
    "alias": "react"
}

Note

• we can add tags to the JSON entries (e.g. "official", "community", "partner", etc.)
• people add new skeletons by making a simple PR to the skeleton.json file
• the alias entry allows people to unpack "react" rather than typing the entire github "path" (i.e. brunch/with-react).

Aside

Their unboxing logic does much more, but we prob don't want to implement all that in one go. A simple git clone should be good enough for now.

References

• Brunch Skeletons repo: https://github.com/brunch/skeletons
• Brunch "unboxing" logic: https://github.com/brunch/init-skeleton