Epic Stack "reset-project" Script

[damiensedgwick]

Taking inspiration from Expo for React Native projects, I personally think it would be useful to have a script that resets the project to either a clean slate completely or 90% of everything and leaving the authentication flows in place.

The flow would look something like this:

1. A new project is created using the cli tool
2. The script "reset-project" is ran
3. An example directory is created, the existing project is placed inside and the user has a clean slate to work from

I think this would be beneficial for a couple of reasons, mainly, it would save on time needed having to go through and strip out the unwanted bits manually, it would serve as a reference point within the project if needed and it would be nice to be able to point AI (in all its glory) to it if and when needed.

Before going ahead and looking at this for myself, I was wondering if there is much appetite for it in an official capacity.

[kentcdodds]

I understand the pain of having to remove a bunch of stuff from the stack. But I would say that 95% of the value of the Epic stack is the ability to reference how things are done, and only 5% is to start a new project. People reference this stack way more than they start new projects, so I want to optimize for that. It doesn't take a ton of time to remove stuff, and adding a bunch of complexity to get things removed is maintenance overhead that I don't have bandwidth for.

I think what would be really beneficial, though, is if somebody built a separate CLI or even made a pull request to epicli, which handled this. That could be done outside of this repo. So I'm definitely interested in something like that if I don't have to maintain it (since I just don't have the bandwidth).

[damiensedgwick]

I would say that 95% of the value of the Epic stack is the ability to reference how things are done

Completely agree. This is why I would opt for placing it all within an example-app directory similar to Expo vs just discarding it all.

I think what would be really beneficial, though, is if somebody built a separate CLI or even made a pull request to epicli, which handled this. That could be done outside of this repo. So I'm definitely interested in something like that if I don't have to maintain it (since I just don't have the bandwidth).

It definitely does not have to be a part of this repo and I would be happy to open a pull request to epicli or doing it as a stand alone CLI. I will try to have a look at this over the weekend and see where I land with an approach.

[damiensedgwick]

Been a little busy and only had time to look at this today for a bit.

PR which is very much still a work in progress at the moment but I wanted to link it to the discussion.