npx create-payload-app in current directory

[TomSmedley]

Hey everyone,

This is a request I made on Discord a few months back but never made a discussion for it. In my workflow I create a folder for a project then open that folder in Visual Code Studio, from there I use the Visual Code Studio terminal to install everything I need into that folder. For example for NextJS I do npx create-next-app@latest . which installs it to the current directory.

Trying to do the same for PayloadCMS returns the error The project directory './' already exists, this means I have to create it inside a directory then move it back out to the project root. Not a massive thing, but just a helpful thing.

[denolfe]

@TomSmedley I just released a beta version of create-payload-app with this functionality. Give it a try with npx create-payload-app@beta . and let me know what you think.