Getting started with Toolpad to be improved

[prakhargupta1]

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Latest version

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Summary 💡

• add --help command to CLI (move to yargs?) Support CLI --help command #1744
• toolpad init command? For quick setup (or something like create-toolpad-app)
• automatically pick another port if 3000 is in use, only in dev mode, when no port has been specified
• automatically open the browser on start i.e, user will not have to click, only in dev mode, with an opt-out cli argument
• avoid having to install @mui/toolpad-core. Fix imports from toolpad #1793. Can we have users import e.g. createComponent from @mui/toolpad?
  • something like: import { createComponent } from '@mui/toolpad/client'
  • import { createQuery } from '@mui/toolpad/server'

Examples 🌈

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Motivation 🔦

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[bytasv]

• For automatic port finding, we could use something like this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-port (I remember in the past I used this or some similar package, worked as expected)
• For browser open one of options - https://github.com/sindresorhus/open
• For CLI parts there are many different options to choose from, but in the past I found that https://www.npmjs.com/package/execa worked pretty well for process management and https://www.npmjs.com/package/yargs to handle arguments and rendering nice helper "screens". If we wanted to make certain outputs look better, we could also use something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/chalk to style text

[Janpot]

We are currently using get-port in the tests. execa in the CLI, arg for CLI argument parsing, and chalk is used in some of the dev scripts