Why we no Yoman?

[kaievns]

This was a bit of an elephant in the room for me on this project and I feel like I'm missing something.

So, why exactly we're building our own templating and CLI thing when there is yoman?

yoman was a go to tool for this sort of things for a few years now. here is for example a MEAN stack generator

I feel like we are reinventing a wheel here and at the same time blocking ourselves off all the awesome things that community already built

[davidbanham]

Because I spent like 30 minutes reading Yeoman docs and then bailed. It's really focused on allowing multiple generators to edit the same file and engages a lot of extra complexity in order to enable that. That's just not a thing we need. What benefit would we accrue from using Yeoman over simple mustache templates?

[kaievns]

well, my thinking is that if you want to use code generators broadly, piggybacking on Yeoman would make sense, as you could use both your own and community created templates.

and the second thing is that generating code is like authenticating users, it seems simple but there so many corner cases. and i'd much prefer someone else make all the mistakes :)