Side remark
When proposed first time, I genuinely hoped that acting as the organizer for RedwoodJS users (warning - not including Core team members, out of respect for valiant efforts by RW Founders to maintain Core team focus), my services would be welcome to a handful RW developers that would be able to find some free time to propose and create a few Redwood applications in the tutorial form - like Create Redwood-Stripe app from scratch, written by RedwoodJS app developer @Standup75.
Response to Allen
Hello, @ajoslin103 There is another discussion thread - Monterey: On reversible rw app creation, which may connect to the discussion Scaffold generator does not generate stories or tests initiated by @craineum with opinions from @rob, @thedavid and @MichaelrMentele.
As I understand, Michael discusses the possibility of retaining the generated stubs (in the test and story sub-components) for possible reuse at a later time. While this is an oversimplification of Michaels discussion, it still leads in the domain of the “Monterey discussion”, which is describing the possibility of a smart undo / redo along the app’s lifecycle.
@ajoslin103 immediately recognized that using GitHub API with some smart code, such undo / redo is in the realm of possibility. Since @craineum seems quite enthused (see his remarks here) and because I know that both @ajoslin103 and myself are still in such mental state. It is even possible that we could appeal to @PantheRedEye who wrote this opinion discussing the Monterey project idea.
Note that @rob expressed a similar view here as:
Our thought was that most folks will end up customizing or throwing away the scaffolded pages as they build out their app. Several of us on the core team are seasoned Rails developers (the framework that inspired the scaffold generators) and none of us had used the Rails scaffold generators in years. It’s very impressive for new developers, or when rapidly prototyping something, but once you’re used to the framework and know what you’re doing they seemed much less useful.
Summary:
This post is an invitation to @PantheRedEye, @ajoslin103 , @MichaelrMentele (attn: @thedavid) to visit these “links to recent history” and decide whether some of us would join forces in planning this project.
For @ajoslin103 only: please check Fig Getting Started, and Fig Redwood. This tool could allow us to build our prototype without any hacking Redwood CLI. The section on Executing Shell Commands reveals more useful details.