Decluttering of Config Files

[akoenig]

Super helpful tool. Thanks for building and sharing it with the world.

I had this addition in my mind where genie could also help in decluttering the config file mess we have in modern projects.

I thought about an approach where a .genie directory could live in the root of the repository and contain the config files that genie uses to render the files into the respective packages. genie could follow a similar approach to what stow does.

Example:

.genie/
  packages/
    pkg-a/
      package.json.genie.ts
      .eslintrc.js.genie.ts
    pkg-b/
      biome.json.genie.ts

This would lead to files being rendered into:

packages/
  pkg-a/
    package.json
    .eslintrc.js
  pkg-b/
    biome.json

This could really declutter the overall codebase when combined with the VS Code settings (settings.json) for excluding files:

"files.exclude": {
    "**/.*": true,
    "**/biome.json",
    "**/package.json"
}