Open yeoman store to another Vinyl Adapter

[Robertj-1]

Great idea to migrate yeoman file manager to vinyl mechanism.
But It would be very useful (at least for me) to allow to set its own vinyl adapter (rather than use vinyl-file).

To give you a rough idea of the use case we are thinking about, we would be really interested in being able to embed our Yeoman generators on our site in order to scaffold web and mobile applications from a definition manifest.
Online integration is important so that users can have a great user experience. An approach similar to
initializr where the user can point and click through the configuration and download a zip at the end of the process.

We followed your pointers given into another post and a few advice from Simon Boudrias.
So, we managed to poc a web node module that embeds yeoman environment and our custom generators.
To add to our experimentation, this node module is hosted by Microsoft Azure ("Path too long" barrier).
So, to achieve our prototype, we want to use another file system mechanism.

It seems that everything is already present to accomplish this. A priori, it's enough to change two methods in mem-fs module (vinylFile.readSync, path.resolve).
These methods will be delegated to a third vinyl adapter

To talk about another use case, it would be interesting for generators to allow use template files hosted online (bootstrap themes...), and provides a mechanism such as office themes.

I hope that my suggestion will retain your attention.

Good continuation !

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