Built-in project templates

Branching from discussion https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues/11#issuecomment-233492323. This is something I want to support in a potential v2.

create-react-app my-app # default like structure like now
create-react-app my-app --from empty
create-react-app my-app --from todomvc
create-react-app my-app --from relay-starter
create-react-app my-app --from you-see-where-im-going

I’m opposed to turning this project into a code generator. However I think initial templates can be useful because they offer a nice way to “clone” examples. We could move the official React examples into this system, and libraries could provide third party “starters”.

I’m not sure this is a good idea but I’d love to be able to tell people to run create-react-app my-app --from redux-todomvc instead of telling them to clone a project, run npm install, etc.

[insin]

That’s effectively what vue-cli does, installing boilerplates from vue-templates with some configurable bits templated.

[lacker]

I think this would be awesome. I would totally prefer boilerplates that are using the “official react app creation setup”. It’s also a way for people to filter out old boilerplates - if they don’t work with the most recent create-react-app, they’re out of date.

It might be awkward to put a whole lot of dependencies in create-react-app but maybe you could have them be loaded by something like

create-react-app MyApp --from github.com/blah/jeiowf or create-react-app MyApp --from npm:jims-react-boilerplate