Change examples to presets

I’ve been tracking the project and so far i’m loving it. I’ve seen that you have Storybook in mind already and i’m really hoping that it becomes first class and with that i would love to take it out for a spin and expand the tutorial to include this aswell. But i was checking the readme and the tutorial and it would be a nice feature to include in a future release the inclusion of options to the user. And by options i mean the examples you have mentioned. Probably move them into their own repos and allow the initialization process to use them.

Basically if the user issues yarn create redwood-app ./redwoodblog it wil default to the de facto setup. But if the user issues yarn create redwood-app todo ./todos it would initialize a new project based on that and the same for other existing examples and hopefully giving the option to the community to expand this and allow them to create their own templates.

With that i believe that it could mean more adoption and also allow the user/community to learn the building blocks of the framework.

Feel free to provide feedback

[jtoar]

Linking issue https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/issues/2218 and PR https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood/pull/2324; they’re somewhat similar to the conversation here, but have more of a contributing angle.

[jtoar]

This came up recently on the Discord. I believe it was @mattmurph9 who asked? Copy pasting here:

Is there a way to change the template or specify a template to use when creating an app using yarn create redwood-app? I’d like something like yarn create redwood-app --some-template and my app be generated with some different template code, maybe some base data model, already created frontend pages, something like that

The use case was multiple web apps, so maybe this could be solved via multiple sides instead, and just sharing components:

My use case is like this: I am creating multiple web applications that have some things in common. Same login page and authentication flow, same topbar, part of the data model is always the same. I’d like to build a template with:

But at least two other users joined the discussion, so it seems like there’s still some real interest here.