[Suggestion] Command to generate boilerplates like Components/Stores/etc

vue make:component TodoItemComponent

can create a component in the right place with the right boilerplate. This can also be applied to vuex, where a single command can generate multiple files.

I personally feel it’ll be best if the boilerplates are defined in the template repos itself rather than in vue-cli but i’m filing the issue here.

[chrisvfritz]

@skyronic While I have nothing against Laravel, my guess is that vue-cli is trying to emulate npm-style commands instead, so something like vue make component TodoItemComponent (space instead of colon) might be more appropriate. Then as a non-Laravel developer, make also has me thinking of Makefiles, so I’d personally prefer generate or create instead.

I do foresee a complication though. This kind of feature would probably only be really useful with a config file, so that users could modify:

• the components directory
• whether components should be generated with a style element
• whether style elements should be scoped
• which lang to use for the style element
• which lang to use for the script
• which lang to use for the template

User-defined snippets a simpler alternative?

I have enjoyed generators in frameworks like Rails, Ember, etc - but honestly, I think single-file generators are often overkill. Text editors typically allow the definition of extension-scoped snippets, so in Atom for example, this does quite nicely:

'.text.vue':
  'Vue Component':
    prefix: 'vc'
    body: """
      <template>
        ${1}
      </template>

      <script>
        export default {
          data () {
            return {${2}}
          }
        }
      </script>

      <style lang="scss" scoped>
        ${3}
      </style>
    """

[michaelscheurer]

Why has this important discussion be closed? In my opinion it’s a very important feature to improve the workflow.

There is already a first alternative: https://github.com/NetanelBasal/vue-generate-component

Why don’t start integrating it into vue-cli? What are the disadvantages?