NativeScript / NativeScript/nativescript-cli
Make the installation scripts install Node and tns
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- JavaScript
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Description
Currently our recommended quick installation is a three-step process: install Node, install tns, and then run our setup scripts. Even though those steps are relatively minimal, a surprising number of people get tripped up going through them. See https://github.com/NativeScript/docs/pull/585 for an example.
I want to propose that we change the installation scripts to install everything—Node, tns, and the various system requirements. The scripts could detect whether Node is installed, as to avoid undoing a user’s installation unknowingly.
A single script would simplify the documentation considerably, but it would probably be a non-trivial engineering effort. And with installers in the works perhaps this isn’t worth the effort. But I wanted to open this up to see what people think.
Thoughts?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points, so begin by locating the installation scripts and the quick-setup documentation. A completed change would have the scripts install Node, tns, and system requirements while detecting an existing Node installation, with the documentation reduced to a simpler setup flow.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- cli, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100