Archetypes

[daveaglick]

Brainstorm on how to make archetypes work easily and allow both users and themes to add them:

• A new conventional archetypes folder should be used
  • Can be adjusted to a different name using settings (like other paths)
  • More archetypes folders can be added
• A command new should be added
• When the new command is used, a separate series of pipelines will be run that finds archetypes and evaluates the right one
• The new command takes the name of an archetype (derived from file name, case-insensitive)
• The archetypes folders contains documents of any supported templating type along with metadata (just like normal documents)
• The archetypes pipeline finds and evaluates the correct archetype document and renders it with any settings --settings key=value - the full bootstrapper and configuration files should be evaluated so we know things like input folder
  • This lets the user specify any metadata the archetype document needs
  • The archetype document can use whatever .Get...() methods, shortcodes, etc. it needs to
• Theme and theme extensions can have a archetypes folder right next to their input folder to define archetypes