Create Project from single composer.json throws errors

[PhillippOhlandt]

To setup a new project I started here:
https://docs.bolt.cm/master/installation/composer/creating-a-new-project#initialise-a-project

Created .bolt.yml and composer.json and ran composer create-project.

Then I got this:

After I created each folder manually I got this after I tried again:

Details

• Relevant Bolt Version: 3.0 beta
• Install type: [ Composer install ]
• PHP version: [ 7.0 ]

[CarsonF]

Why were .bolt.yml and composer.json created before running composer create-project?

[PhillippOhlandt]

Because the docs says I shall create them and then run the command.

[SvanteRichter]

Bolt's Composer based installs can be performed using either composer create-project (recommended), or building your own composer.json and path configuration file for more advanced control.

@PhillippOhlandt I might be missing something here, but that sounds to me more like an "either/or" rather than a "before and then" situation.

[SvanteRichter]

Removed blocker per dev-meeting

[GwendolenLynch]

It's still crappy and can be done better and what is documented break… but very tiny corner case of people that should be able to deal with it.

I've tagged 3.1 on this and that is also flexible.

[SvanteRichter]

@PhillippOhlandt Still an issue or not?

[PhillippOhlandt]

@SahAssar yep, but it's the wrong way to setup Bolt anyway. It still complains about the missing folders.

[CarsonF]

Yeah if you are creating a project you shouldn't need to have to create a composer.json and .bolt.yml first. The create command creates those files.

[PhillippOhlandt]

But it fails when the folders are missing instead of creating it. That's why you usually use bolt/composer-install because it has the folders.

[CarsonF]

Oh are you calling create-project bolt/bolt? Don't do that.

[PhillippOhlandt]

Yeah, it will start the config process but it fails when a folder is missing. Would be better when the folder will be created then.

[CarsonF]

Nope. Just should be avoided entirely.

[GwendolenLynch]

Nope. Just should be avoided entirely.

Agreed.

Also those docs were all heavily, if not completely, rewritten. So calling this closed.