Feature Request: Enhancement of "modular add ..."

[steveukx]

The current modular add ... command enables developers to scaffold new apps and views in their modular workspace based on template files within the modular-scripts module itself.

This feature would enhance the current functionality to allow referencing templates as either an npm module name or a cloneable git repository URL. By making this change, modular would be:

• more lightweight: there will no longer be the need to bundle the templates along with modular-scripts so they wouldn't form part of the initial download when installing modular-scripts.

• more flexible: unlocks the ability for other libraries/frameworks to share templates through the modular eco-system, either by sharing examples as separate repos, or publishing examples into a package manager (npm/yarn etc) as part of a build process.

• more responsive: the templates used by modular add will no longer be bound to the version of modular-scripts being used, meaning that upgrades and updates to the template can be published independently of modular-scripts.

Examples:

# use the content of @steveukx/some-view-example module published to npm:
modular add @steveukx/some-view-example

# use a git export from the specified git remote
modular add https://github.com/steveukx/some-view-example.git

# use a short name to reference a package known to modular-scripts
# this would be the module @modular-scripts/template-view
modular add view