request: Add init command to bootstrap a melos project

[exaby73]

Is there an existing feature request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

Command

melos init

Description

Running melos init should in theory automate the steps defined in Getting Started

Reasoning

Currently setting up a melos project is very manual having to create your pubspec.yaml and melos.yaml. This new init command would solve that

Additional context and comments

No response

[spydon]

Should I assign you to it @exaby73? :)

[exaby73]

I got it :) I'll cook up something soon thank you

[albinpk]

I've made a Mason brick to bootstrap a Melos project structure with poly-repo support, maybe useful while the melos init command is in progress.
https://brickhub.dev/bricks/melos

[spydon]

There is also this brick: https://github.com/ubuntu/flutter_project_template

But we don't want to depend on mason for the init command.

[spydon]

@albinpk ah now I get the comment, you meant as a work-around until melos init is out? That's a good idea. :)

[albinpk]

@albinpk ah now I get the comment, you meant as a work-around until melos init is out? That's a good idea. :)

Yes, exactly; it's a workaround until melos init is available.

@spydon I’m actually using Melos in my smaller projects without a monorepo structure as well, since Melos is really useful for versioning, tagging, and changelog generation. I set it up with a simple melos.yaml like this:

name: <name>

packages:
  - ./

command:
  version:
    workspaceChangelog: false

Is there another recommended way to set up Melos for projects that aren’t monorepos, or could we add an option for this setup in the init command?

[spydon]

It isn't recommended to have a project directly in the root, because the dependencies of the project (and vice versa) then need to conform to the Melos version and its dependency constraints.
So even with only one app/package I would recommend to use a subdirectory.

It would be good if this could be done in a better manner, but not sure how that would be possible (and that would be related to another issue and not this one).

[albinpk]

Ya, that makes sense about the dependencies. Thanks for the clarification!