Building a CLI + Personalization

[kinngh]

I've been working with more engineers and as time has passed I've seen devs wanting more customization / personalization when it comes to building apps. This means the flexibility to use certain db tech, billing API integrated at production level and TypeScript support.

While TS support is something I want to look at a future time, I want to focus in on building a CLI tool that generates boilerplate based on your stack. Here's what I am thinking about:

Databases

• MongoDB [Already available]
• PostgreSQL (Direct)
• Prisma (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CockroachDB)
• Supabase

Billing API

• Recurring / Subscription charges (Support freemium + paid only)
• Usage based charges
• Combination of both

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, and what else could be done to actually build a more personalized boilerplate and how to maintain it, sustainably

[kinngh]

The create-shop-app CLI lives at https://github.com/kinngh/create-shop-app or you can test it out with npx create-shop-app@latest !