Ability for recipes to install or base off of other recipes

[jamiedavenport]

For example, I have a recipe for TailwindUI and this installs TailwindCSS as part of the recipe. The installation is mostly the same as the official TailwindCSS recipe with some additional files and transformations. I want to discuss whether or not there's a better way to handle this situation, below are some of my thoughts:

Duplicate Setup

This is the approach I've taken so far. Not very good if changes to the prerequisite recipe are required but if the two recipes might diverge then I suppose there's no harm in this.

README instructions

Alternatively, we could assume in the recipe that the prerequisites have already been installed. This would be documented in the recipe README and require the dev to do slightly more work

blitz install tailwind
blitz install tailwindui

# OR

blitz install tailwind tailwindui

Install recipe step

We could build this into the installer with an addRecipeStep.

addRecipeStep(recipe: string): IRecipeBuilder

[flybayer]

@jamiedavenport yes, we should definitely add support for recipes to base off other recipes!

[Dohxis]

I would love to have this feature too.

[jamiedavenport]

With any of the approaches above other than duplicating the recipe, I'm thinking we need a way to version control deps? Is that already supported @flybayer?

[flybayer]

No, but we can add that