Support External Repository for Project Templates

[ntotten]

Support external samples repository like create-next-app. See: https://nextjs.org/blog/create-next-app

The idea would be we have a github repo salesforcedx-examples or something. Each example is in a folder example-1, example-2, etc. The user can then run the command:

sfdx force:project:create --template <name>

We could also make the example repo customizable so team's could create their own custom templates.

sfdx force:project:create --template <name> --repository https://github.com/myorg/templates

[jonathanwiesel]

This would be great since many companies and projects require development environments tweaking, this will grant the required flexibility to do it.

[randi274]

We now offer this feature! 🎉 Check out our documentation here for more details on implementing this for your project and your team: https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/vscode/en/user-guide/byotemplate

[jclark-dot-org]

@randi274 That's great but it's not really what this request was asking for, which is the ability to create a new SFDX project from a template other than the two that ship with SFDX. While the linked item looks useful, sfdx is a command-line tool whereas VSCode is an IDE.

[randi274]

Hey @jclark-dot-org thanks for the feedback! The custom templates feature should work for both VS Code and the CLI, as they both make use of this library (so the docs referring to how to set the config variables work in both cases!).

But after I saw your comment, I ran through some additional testing of projects specifically, and I'm seeing that projects isn't quite configurable yet (either within the default 3 of standard, empty, or analytics, or modifying each of them individually), so it's a good case to re-open here 👍 cheers!