Ionic-framework: Proposal: ionic start in current working directory

[slezica]

Right now, ionic start . is interpreted as "create a project named .".

$ mkdir project; cd project
$ ionic start .
Please name your Ionic project something meaningful other than '.'

Instead, ionic start . could take the project name from the current working directory

$ mkdir project; cd project
$ ionic start .
Creating Ionic app in folder /home/me/project

I don't think this behaviour is surprising, but the user could be asked to approve if ionic is running in an interactive shell (ionic start is not a command that you repeatedly run):

$ ionic start .
Create project in current directory? [Y/n]

[perrygovier]

Turning an existing directory in to an ionic project opens a bigger can of worms than the benefits weigh. Sorry, not this time around.

[Cheezmeister]

What kind of worms, exactly?

[nycynik]

I think the README should probably be changed then, to say, start with ionic start proj tabs then cd into that directory, and then do git add remote ..., git push.

I think the problem is people make the repo, check it out (or just git init) and then try to run the ionic start command, and it fails, or it makes another folder in their project, and they are confused.

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