[Feature] New CLI command: skeleton

[jwx]

I'm submitting a feature request
I think a good CLI is something that brings developers to a tool/framework and that it's beneficial to have developers working with the CLI. I therefore suggest the command skeleton which creates projects based on a specified skeleton. Some examples:

au skeleton --list (list "known Aurelia skeletons")
au skeleton navigation-typescript (download, install, build and run the latest navigation skeleton for typescript)
au skeleton git:// url (download, install, build and run from git)

Additional flags could be added, such as --watch, --no-run, --no-build, --no-install etc.

[eriklieben]

This is not exactly what you are asking for, but might be useful.

I use this for demonstration purposes, to quickly show the navigation skeleton without doing a lot of copy and paste work. Currently works for typescript, not sure about babel setup, because I did not use it yet/ didn't require it yet, but the files are there.

Perform au new and select option 2 or 3 with typescript, when the installation is done type:

npm i @generator/skeleton-navigation -D

WARNING: this overrides all your files, so make a backup if you do this in an existing project!
Now type au generate and you will see a skeleton-navigation generator, which can be executed with:

au generate skeleton-navigation

Then start au run --watch and start coding.

Your feature request describes a more user-friendly version, because the above needs instructions for users on what to do, etc.

[AStoker]

Kind of sounds like Yoeman

[3cp]

This is covered by "makes" based skeleton now.