Add categories to templates - community, external etc.

[wtrocki]

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[machi1990]

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[wtrocki]

More context here. We will be working with partners to try out their work and we need a way to include their templates into graphback for recognition and also association with technologies we cannot or have time to investigate.

[craicoverflow]

Would the templates live in the repo, or will they be pulled from multiple sources, so that they do not all need to live inside the repo?

[wtrocki]

Never in the repo. Entire concept will be to have them as community ones that might get outdated etc. after a while. This is one of the strategies that we will cover to promote graphback - it actually requires technical investment because I would not expect creator to add this capability (separate sort for community ones) - just add link to repo and that will be it.

[machi1990]

Never in the repo. Entire concept will be to have them as community ones that might get outdated etc. after a while. This is one of the strategies that we will cover to promote graphback - it actually requires technical investment because I would not expect creator to add this capability (separate sort for community ones) - just add link to repo and that will be it.

We already have the ability to indicate template's url

graphback/packages/create-graphback/src/index.ts

Line 28 in 375dc51

args.option('templateUrl', {

If I understood correctly, the use case here is to be able to indicate that an template is a community provided or an external template if the url does not match graphback's templates repository?

[craicoverflow]

IIRC that flag does not work.

#1043 not sure why we closed this

[wtrocki]

Ah.. idea here is to actually embedd them into some separate json file that people can edit and list them on init (but with header - those are community maintained).
So people can get something they feel familiar with.

[machi1990]

Ah.. idea here is to actually embedd them into some separate json file that people can edit and list them on init (but with header - those are community maintained).
So people can get something they feel familiar with.

Even better.

[RinkiyaKeDad]

Hi! Can I work on this? As far as I understand the goal is that people should be able to provide a link to their template (a JSON file) by using something like: graphback init --templateUrl=<link-goes-here>? What would be a good starting point for solving this? Thanks.

[wtrocki]

I was thinking we can actually create templates.json file in repo where community can add their templates.
Graphback-cli project have them hard coded for the moment so we can split between community and base templatez