[CB-10808] cordova template should have api to specify directory name with template content

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Master
• Component/s: cordova-cli
• Assignee: Carlos Santana
• Reporter: Carlos Santana
• Created: 08/Mar/16 15:39
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:56
• Resolved: 15/Mar/16 21:03

Description

When creating an app using a template from npm like:

cordova create myapp --template my-cool-cdv-template

App is created with content of root of the npm pacakge.

By doing this all files are copied from the template.

In some cases some files are not desire to end up in the new app, files that are related to testing, packaging, source control, etc..
Some files are:
package.json
And some time you want the new app to have a package.json provided by the template but not the template's pacakge.json

We should implement same way we do cordova-app-hello-world npm package
main module exports an object with a property dirname

Example:
Content of package.tgz from npm
package.json
lib/
.gitignore
template_content/
template_content/package.json
template_content/www
template_content/config.xml
index.js

Content of package.json
{
"name": "my-cool-cdv-template",
"main": "./index.js"
}

Content of index.js:
path=require('path');
module.exports = {
"dirname": path.join(__dirname,'template_content')
}

This also allows to run npm install after copying the template files and the template deliverable included a package.json, for example to have dev tools and scripts to be install for the development of the cordova app.