Possibility to create a new project from existing one along with its dependencies

[vchimev]

Currently --copy-from option of the tns create <App Name> command takes as argument the app directory of an existing NativeScript project. In this way the newly created project is not aware of the dependencies of the old one described in its package.json file.

It would be nice if there is a possibility to copy not only the app folder content, but also project's dependencies (and runtimes versions) information.

[Fatme]

You can get the dependencies and/or runtimes versions from old package.json file and use tns init.

[vchimev]

Yes, but still you have to get them manually.

My idea is for example --copy-from option to take as argument package.json file (or the directory of package.json and app folder) and include its list of dependencies in the package.json file of the new project. Then you would be able to proceed with tns install.

[PanayotCankov]

👍

[rosen-vladimirov]

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's the business case here? In case you want the same project, can't you just copy the directory and change the id in the package.json ? Can you point existing IDE that allows copy project (maybe there's such option, but I really can't remember ever using it)?

[vchimev]

@rosen-vladimirov
I see my idea behind this issue to be implemented as --template option (#374 (comment)) in 1.6.0. Closing this one.