Downloading template from npm registry

[egoist]

Currently something like vue init webpack will make vue-cli download git repo vuejs-template/webpack, I thought instead we can make it download from npm registry if the template name does not contain /. For example vue init webpack would install package vue-template-webpack, thus everyone can type less to generate from their own template 🤗 just like sao

[posva]

But wouldn't that mean we need to publish the templates to the npm registry, making it more complicated?

[egoist]

People can still use git repo if they feel publishing a package a bit complicated.

[posva]

Oh right, we only need to publish our templates as packages
But isn't it easier to just pushing to github 😄

[LinusBorg]

@posva Sure it's easier for us, but We already see that the continous upgrades leave people confused, because with our github releases its not really clear which feature / dependency is part of the template since when etc.

I think publishing templates via npm would lead to a better maintainability as we would release explicit versions and could also analyse which version users were using when they report a problem.

[posva]

Makes sense. I see the interest, people, I know @kazupon does release versions of his templates (I don't know if he publishes them), and has a nice changelog.

[kazupon]

In general, I think that we create the templates and use it by oneself, so I don't always think we want to release to npm. Actually, I also don't publish to npm. However, it's rather troublesome to type the long template name everytime.

[skiano]

This sounds like a great feature to me :) I have a repo with a bunch of build helpers for a group of related projects, and the idea of separating out a repo just for the cli template (vs just publishing from inside a folder in my build tools repo) seems cumbersome.

[fcroce]

I hate to come back on a closed issue, but I have a similar problem:

Our company uses Verdaccio and we have a number of packages and now templates published there, but "vue init" doesn't seem to offer the option to use a custom mirror and download the template from NPM.

The template is specific for my company, so I can't publish it on vuejs-template

The only solution I found so far, (ugly though...), is to git clone and use the template from local with ./

Is there a way to use a mirror that is not documented, or is it worth a feature in the vue-init project?

Any suggestion is appreciated @egoist , @posva

[LinusBorg]

you can install the template from npm and then run init with a local path:

vue init ../node_nodules/your-template name-of-project

[fcroce]

@LinusBorg it's more or less the same as we do now:

git clone ...
vue init ./my-template

I was curious if there was a better way.

Something like vue init npm@my-template my-project would be nice and because it's using NPM we can have a private package manager in .npmrc

registry = http://verdaccio.on.docker:4873/

If it's overkill I guess git clone or using the node_modules folder will do.

Thank you!

[LinusBorg]

Yeah we don't intend to change anything about the init feature in the foreeable future as we see it as a legacy feature. We focus on the new plugin-base approach of vue create