tada-app

Build your own templates, add your own collection of re-usable addons and generate your web apps based on your specific needs.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/leweyse/tada-app.git

cd tada-app

pnpm install

pnpm build --filter create-tada-app

# install the cli in your local registry
cd cli && pnpm link

The build embeds this repo's location into the CLI binary, so rerun pnpm build --filter create-tada-app if you move the repo.

The CLI scaffolds the new app into the current working directory, so cd to your target dir first:

cd ~/code        # or wherever you want to create your app
create-tada-app

Note: The CLI reads templates from this repo's templates/ directory (base for the new app) and optional addons from addons/.

What is the goal?

There are amazing projects that provide a great starting point for robust applications: create-t3-app, create-jd-app, react-three-next, etc.

And Vite will definitely be the best option to start a project from scratch.

But... What is the middle ground? How can you create a simple app with your favorite tools already included? A template in CodeSandbox? No, there is something more important... Your own editor setup (I use Neovim btw).

I hope the following use cases can be covered using this CLI:

• Simple command to generate apps from my own templates and with my favorite (optional) tools: tailwindcss, biome, xr, etc.
• The easiest option to experiment with new technologies or libraries without the hassle of setting up common tools.
• Simple way to reproduce issues and share repositories.

Why Rust?

I just wanted to learn something new. Actually... I still have a lot to learn, but it's been fun so far.

TODO

• Add addons to existing apps.
• Local test addons and their integration on different templates.
  • Possible solution: Create temporal files while running dev server.