Create sub package as a plugin

[robiness]

As a plugin we create a new folder for the dockerize command called server.
We create it by hand and later when we need to reference it we need to find it ourselves.

Would it be wanted and feasible to have a addPackage function in the plugin_installer?

It would be cool to have the project's structure abstracted away for plugins.

I imagine this creates a folder in the right place. Be it the packages folder or top level if no packages folder is present.
Then introduces this folder in the <cli>_project.dart.

[passsy]

I don't think a default folder where a plugin has access to write stuff will work. Project structures are too different and I don't want sidekick to force one.

But, there are two things sidekick could help you with:

• Folder Selector: An easy-to-use directory selector, where a user can point to a location where your server should be created.
• Plugin Settings: a way to save plugin settings on disk. You could save the path to your server folder, or the sidekick_vault plugin may save a path to the default vault. I'd love to save this information in pubspec.yaml under the sidekick.plugins section.

But, Plugin Settings, might be unnecessary. Checkout the current implementation of sidekick_vault. It writes the location of the vault folder into source during generation. You could do the same and always know where the folder is located.

[jxstxn1]

It would be nice if we could just move the method from the vault into the installer so that the creation of the paths is unified and we are able to ensure that no one will destroy other paths by accident

[passsy]

Which code do you mean? All you need is a relative path from a fixed location. Sidekick already provides:

Repo root

// in install.dart
final serverDir = findRepository().root.directory('server');

// in sidekick cli
final serverDir = repository.root.directory('server');

Both point to the same location

sidekick cli package location

// in install.dart
final serverDir = PluginContext.sidekickPackage.root.directory('server');

// in sidekick cli
final serverDir = Repository.cliPackageDir.root.directory('server');

Both point to the same location

[jxstxn1]

@passsy I think we can close this