[ALOY-1498] Add ability to create new alloy app from apps other than builtin sample apps

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	n/a
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	n/a
Labels	alloy, cli, samples, templates, titanium
Reporter	Brenton House
Assignee	Feon Sua Xin Miao
Created	2016-05-03T21:50:27.000+0000
Updated	2016-05-11T18:35:41.000+0000

Description

{quote} As a developer, I want to be able to create a new Alloy app from a template other than the builtin Alloy sample apps, So that I can save development time and errors when creating apps that need to conform to corporate (or other) standards. {quote} Currently, as a developer, I can create a new Alloy app using

appc alloy new . --testapp NAME_OF_SAMPLE_APP

The sample app must exist in the alloy\samples\apps directory. It would be nice to be able to point add other folders to this, perhaps in a similar way to ti config (paths.commands, paths.hooks, paths.plugins, etc) Maybe there could be a paths.samples property that could be used by developers to add other sample directories to be searched when using the --testapp parameter.

Comments

Stephen Feather 2016-05-04

Alloy should reference the paths.templates setting from the cli's config.json See TIMOB-16620 Most likely resolved with a unified cli/alloy tooling.
Sharif AbuDarda 2016-05-06

Hello [~brentonhouse], Can you follow [~sfeather] comment, see if that helps you? Thanks.
Brenton House 2016-05-08

I believe he was referring to a proposed code change to Alloy. I don't think Alloy currently references paths.templates.
Brenton House 2016-05-11

Wouldn't this issue be part of the Alloy CLI and not the Titanium CLI?

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