elixir-desktop
Feature request: write the example app as a phoenix generator
I spent some time migrating the example app to a newer framework eg. in #28, and what I found is that the necessary bits seem very minimal, but are bundled together with some opinionated decisions such as using dart-css rather than the current default of tailwind. This could be made much more sustainable by packaging the needed customizations in a phx.new.* generator, see for example this blog post which outlines one straightforward approach.
An even more elegant approach might be to package custom template files and code-modifying modules capable of adding elixir-desktop support to an existing project.
Looking at phx.new and phx.gen.*, the existing tooling is not great. It seems that code generators are using crude text operations rather than something fancy like quote and Macro.to_string...
Maybe a better approach might be to consolidate the elixir-desktop integration down to a minimum, and document that. To be continued...
I'm open for options, and agree that trying to keep it minimal would be great so it doesn't have to be changed every time phoenix decides on a new ui standard (e.g. the inclusion of daisyui now)
@WurmPeter thanks for suggesting Igniter, this looks like the right approach.
I've started writing a desktop.install task, all it does is add the dependency for now: elixir-desktop/desktop#62
A small update: the PR is now able to add all necessary glue to an existing project, so that it will launch a Desktop window.