spare dew
If I am making a Astro Template for use with npm create astro@latest -- --template <mytemplate> can I add my own interactive prompts/questions to the install script? How do I hook in?
right now I am doing a post install script asking my template users to run pnpm run template:init, but I'm not even sure my package.json will be preserved when installed via --template (haven't tested it yet, nor do I know if you need to get your template added to the template repo first)
rare drum
package.json for the template in question is always preserved, you can do test it with any of the templates on astro.build
spare dew
@rare drum thanks for that clarification. Can I hook into the questionaire and add my own questions and post-install scripts?
rare drum
that means overriding astro cli which I don't think is possible (at least I have never seen 1 on Internet)
but if you make your own cli app using clacks by nate helping users install and configure your template then I think its done and dusted
spare dew
yeah, so a 2 step process then
that is too bad we can't hook into houston create-astro
I'll drop it into #feedback-ideas
@rare drum thanks for responding!
spare dew
but if you make your own cli app using `clacks` by nate helping users install an...
oo giving me the name of the library that houston uses was great! I would have spent a lot of time trying to trace and track it down. That's great thanks!
I guess theoretically I could also make a create-mytemplate and invoke create-astro first, then do my followup stuff?
which would at least make the user experience npm create my-astro-template@latest
but if there is additional options the user wants to bubble up to create-astro I would have to handle that and keep step with it.
rare drum
this is something i can't answer out of sheer inexperience 😔, can't imagine what will you cook 