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Future Plans

The below is a list of things I'd like to add to the project in the future, and is kinda a 'work list' for me.

Everything below will be implemented and are in no particular order or importance.

General

  • Add a flag to overwrite existing files if the directory exists. Make this require confirmation. Alternately allow overwrite with confirmation if an existing/populated directory is found. Add a force flag to skip confirmation. I think DO NOT allow this when '.' is specified as this could be disastrous.
  • Add cmd line options to specify the project name, author, etc. so the user doesn't have to enter them manually. Not sure if this is needed once we add the CLI parameters to the config file. May be useful for automation though.
  • Add a command to the CLI template command to show the template files as a tree, marking whether each file/folder is from the internal templates or the user's templates.
  • Implement a 'plugin' functionality where we can specify modified/extra files to be added to the generated project. This would also add a command line flag (ie --django, --pydantic or --fastapi or whatever) to use that plugin, and a config setting to specify using this plugin always. Plugins could be built-in (provided with the package) or user-defined (in the users /pymaker/plugins folder or installable via pip). Have a config setting to specify which plugins are enabled.
  • Include an optional vscode settings file in the generated project, optimized for python projects. This could include recommended extensions.
  • Perhaps add AUTHORS.md skeleton.
  • Add a default dockerfile? Maybe a docker-compose file as well- Both for this project and for the generated projects?
  • Update the config CLI command to enable setting/flipping individual config settings from the command line.
  • check for an existing GitHub repository when the user supplies the repo name and ask for an alternative if it exists.
  • add option (probably using the eventual plugin functionality) to create a skeleton typer CLI app.
  • if it creates a new remote GitHub repo, print the GitHub URL to the console, offer to open it in the browser.
  • when creating a github repo, set the homepage if specified. Options to add tags? Offer option to create a private repo?
  • add ability to add new licences to the licenses module. Perhaps similar to the way we modify the templates. This will need a bit of refactoring to the way we handle licences.

Bugs

  • None known at this time.

Back Burner

These are ideas that I may or may not implement. They are here for reference.

  • Modify boolean settings in the config to have the values 'yes', 'no' or 'ask'? This will be a bit lower priority and not sure if it's worth it.
  • Add some form of 'extra packages' command line option and config setting to automatically add extra packages to the generated pyproject.toml file.
  • Add template GitHub workflows for CI/CD, testing, etc. CodeQL or is that too much (I do use it in most of my repos)?
  • Add the actions/stale action to the generated project.

Refactoring / Code Cleanup

  • None planned at this time.

Documentation

  • Add usage examples and perhaps a walk-through to the documentation. Maybe with a YouTube video?
  • explain how to add more License templates to the 'licenses' module

Testing

  • Add testing with Pytest (IN PROGRESS)