CLI and composition with other possible addons generators

Once #6 is done, a welcome suggestion (thanks @R0muald) was to provide a way to compose the base SK generator with any other “addon” generators.

One way could be to investigate yeoman’s composability features or maybe create a custom CLI to simply wraps the generators setup/install/running.

The basic idea is to gather in a simple way for the user the ability to mix the SK with addon generator, something like:

$ ngx new myAwesomeProject --addons="myCompanyUiLibrary someBackendGenerator"

or even maybe

 # performs `npm install` + register addons with ngx cli
$ ngx addon install myCompanyUiLibrary someBackendGenerator
# registered addons will be used by default
$ ngx new myAwesomeProject

Yeoman also support generating a project from multiple generators, so we should also consider this.

Remaining tasks

• Extract generator code in a separate package
• Add template prefix to allow merging json files
• Refactor base generator to use core
• Create an example addon generator
• Create CLI
• Create generator for making addons
• Add documentation
• Create new issues for blueprints support…

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For those interested, the CLI is fully working at this point. By default, all locally installed addon generators are used, but you can enable/disable them individually with ngx config.

A basic addon example is also ready and published to play with.

Now there’s a lot of documentation to write for it, and I’ll finish with an addon boilerplate generator to make addon creation even easier 😄

Any feedback is welcome!

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Finally!! 🎉 👯 🍾

A lot efforts went in this, but it’s done 😃

See the docs and tools in:

• https://github.com/ngx-rocket/core
• https://github.com/ngx-rocket/generator-ngx-rocket-addon
• https://github.com/ngx-rocket/cli
• https://github.com/ngx-rocket/addon-example