Problem

I'm currently putting together an elementary app template which tries to stick as near as possible to the elementary Developer Docs.

Because of this I was wondering, if we should add a "New Project" wizard to Code which allows to create a new elementary OS App skeleton by asking a few questions and then fetching the content of a template repo from GitHub.

The idea is not quite new and there is "Develop" in AppCenter already which does something similar.

However, when I used Develop in the past it seemed not to be up to date to how we structure apps. In addition I think it would be quite useful to have official templates which closely stick to the official documentation.

Proposal

• Add a "New Project" button which starts the Wizard
• Let the Wizard ask a few questions and set the values of pre-defined variables
• Fetch the corresponding project template from GitHub
• Replace the now defined variables in the template code with their values
• Show finish screen which points to additional documentation (depends on template)
• Open the newly created project in Code

Prior Art (Optional)

• "Develop" in AppCenter
• Create new project in Xcode
• ...