Clasp create add-on templates

Create Apps Script projects with templates

Clasp should make it easy to use our Apps Script templates. What if you could select a template when creating a clasp project?

Expected Behavior

clasp create lists template options in which you can choose from different templates, i.e.

Actual Behavior

clasp create creates an empty Apps Script project. Not super useful.

Thoughts @erickoledadevrel?

[grant]

Noted. We’ll have to create a list of toolchains that we’d like to inter-op with. As with this original issue, it seems like you’d be more interested in a generic solution than a specialize set of templates.

In the npm ecosystem, given toolchains change every year, it’s generally good practice to make lightweight, generic package that can hook into anything. Maybe just better inter-op with npm would be a good first step.

[erickoledadevrel]

The templates in the UI are focussed around use cases (docs add-ons, sheets add-on, etc). I’m more interested in templates around tool chains. For example, I’d love a template project that already has a way to bundle JavaScript libraries from NPM into the HTML files that Apps Script supports.