Project templates in snapcraft

[Spencer]

Small, well commented examples, but not too small so as to leave out obviously wanted functionality, IMO, are way better than templates.  Part of the problem I have with any kind of template is OCD-based.  I don't want to start where someone else left off, and if I didn't write it, I won't immediately understand it, and I'm too lazy to read your code that's formatted in a way I don't like anyway.  (At work, though, I'm forced to wade through other people's crappy code.)

Just having a nice suit of examples is the best, and I think the snap peeps have written some, but as I recall, they could be a bit better.  Of course, an example for every permutation of build system and use-case is too much, so you have to look to the snaps that the community has written.

Ha!  Mine are probably bad examples, though.  Don't look at mine.

> On Nov 4, 2016, at 8:11 PM, Érico P <ericoporto2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Should be a place somewhere to store these recommended templates and allow fetching third-party templates (I am thinking on cookiecutter like templates).
> 
> This has some resources on Electron, maybe it helps : https://github.com/szwacz/electron-boilerplate
> 
> 
> Em 5 de nov de 2016 00:00, "Chris Wayne" <chris.wayne at canonical.com> escreveu:
>> There's really no standard way to build electron apps though
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 4, 2016 9:58 PM, "Aaron Honeycutt" <honeycuttaaron3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Also electron projects
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016, 9:20 PM XiaoGuo Liu <xiaoguo.liu at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> +1
>>>> 
>>>> I think it may apply to "nodejs", "python", "tomcat", "mysql", "php", "java" etc.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> XiaoGuo
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Benjamin Zeller <benjamin.zeller at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Just a small proposal to have templates in snapcraft, that provide some sort of starting point for
>>>> people without the need to read lots of tutorials, but get started with their project right away.
>>>> 
>>>> My proposal would be to add a template engine in snapcraft, that generates predefined projects
>>>> or at least a predefined snapcraft.yaml for a specific use case.
>>>> 
>>>> Something like:
>>>> 
>>>> snapcraft init --template=ubuntu-touch-app , which would bootstrap a simple snapcraft project
>>>> targeting QML/Qt APIs.
>>>> 
>>>> I think that could help people to get their apps snapped even faster.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Benjamin
>>>> 
>>>> 
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