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Co-authored-by: Lea Anthony <lea.anthony@gmail.com>
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# Templates
Wails generates projects from pre-created templates. In v1, this was a difficult to maintain set of projects that were
subject to going out of date. In v2, to empower the community, a couple of new features have been added for templates:
- Ability to generate projects from [Remote Templates](../reference/cli.mdx#remote-templates)
- Tooling to help create your own templates
## Creating Templates
To create a template, you can use the `wails generate template` command. To generate a default template, run:
`wails generate template -name mytemplate `
This creates the directory "mytemplate" with default files:
```shell title=mytemplate/
.
|-- NEXTSTEPS.md
|-- README.md
|-- app.tmpl.go
|-- frontend
| `-- dist
| |-- assets
| | |-- fonts
| | | |-- OFL.txt
| | | `-- nunito-v16-latin-regular.woff2
| | `-- images
| | `-- logo-dark.svg
| |-- index.html
| |-- main.css
| `-- main.js
|-- go.mod.tmpl
|-- main.tmpl.go
|-- template.json
`-- wails.tmpl.json
```
### Template Overview
The default template consists of the following files and directories:
| Filename / Dir | Description |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| NEXTSTEPS.md | Instructions on how to complete the template |
| README.md | The README published with the template |
| app.tmpl.go | `app.go` template file |
| frontend/ | The directory containing frontend assets |
| go.mod.tmpl | `go.mod` template file |
| main.tmpl.go | `main.go` template file |
| template.json | The template metadata |
| wails.tmpl.json | `wails.json` template file |
At this point it is advisable to follow the steps in `NEXTSTEPS.md`.
## Creating a Template from an Existing Project
It's possible to create a template from an existing frontend project by passing the path to the project when generating
the template. We will now walk through how to create a Vue 3 template:
- Install the vue cli: `npm install -g @vue/cli`
- Create the default project: `vue create vue3-base`
- Select `Default (Vue 3) ([Vue 3] babel, eslint)`
- After the project has been generated, run:
```shell
> wails generate template -name wails-vue3-template -frontend .\vue3-base\
Extracting base template files...
Migrating existing project files to frontend directory...
Updating package.json data...
Renaming package.json -> package.tmpl.json...
Updating package-lock.json data...
Renaming package-lock.json -> package-lock.tmpl.json...
```
- The template may now be customised as specified in the `NEXTSTEPS.md` file
- Once the files are ready, it can be tested by running: `wails init -n my-vue3-project -t .\wails-vue3-template\`
- To test the new project, run: `cd my-vue3-project` then `wails build`
- Once the project has compiled, run it: `.\build\bin\my-vue3-project.exe`
- You should have a fully functioning Vue3 application:
<div className="text--center">
<img
src={require("@site/static/img/vue3-template.png").default}
width="50%"
/>
</div>
## Publishing Templates
Publishing a template is simply pushing the files to GitHub. The following best practice is encouraged:
- Remove any unwanted files and directories (such as `.git`) from your frontend directory
- Ensure that `template.json` is complete, especially `helpurl`
- Push the files to GitHub
- Create a PR on the [Community Templates](../community/templates.mdx) page
- Announce the template on the [Template Announcement](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/discussions/825) discussion board