Preact-cli: Eject option

[knight-bubble]

Are there any plans of adding "eject" option, similar to https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app#converting-to-a-custom-setup?

[prateekbh]

Is there an ongoing effort for this? else I am planning to take this up and discuss the approaches we can take for this.

[developit]

I'm not really sure we need eject, since it's possible to customize configuration already. What is the value we get out of providing eject?

[lukeed]

I agree ^^ CRA came with eject because it started off with a closed door -- you either liked what you got, or you didn't.

[prateekbh]

Not sure, I just felt that eject would give user land an option to do anything if they're stuck at any corner case. I know the work for keeping cli flexible is super awesome, but I am the believer that one solution might never fit all. This is when eject makes cli as a boilerplate code.

But yes I do not have a solid use case for now, and may be we can keep this as a P2/P3 for sometime later

[developit]

Yup. I think the main blocker here is that we have nicely structured the CLI instead of keeping it as a single monolithic webpack.config.js, which means that in order to produce a standalone webpack config we'd have to move back to writing things as a big standalone webpack config (or do crazy codegen magic).

[prateekbh]

oh yeah, I guess we can park this for now, until someone comes up with a solid use case

[lili21]

what's about the project which use something like Docker for building and deploying ?
without eject, I have to install preact-cli every time before building.

[thangngoc89]

@lili21 you can actually include preact-cli as a devDep to avoid that

[lili21]

I know I can do that. It just doesn't feel right. and It still installed preact-cli every time.