"Recipe" suggestions for the Javascript backend

[sureshjoshi]

In the process of slowly updating the Javascript backend's documentation on pantsbuild.org - and figured this would be as good a time as any to start putting down "Recipes" (bikeshed on the name).

Essentially, the 80/20 use cases that a new user could open up and get up and running with.

Simple example, if someone ran create-react-app or similar, what would they need to do to ensure everything they want works in Pants.

Or, if they're using typescript (which we don't support yet), how can they get their solution up and running.

This would be just single-backend recipes, not cross-backend stuff (yet)

[riisi]

I made some steps towards javascript docs in the backend README here - #20826, if that helps at all.
Having some basic use cases would be great - although I fear the most basic use case is 'install react app' which we can't really support until typescript (or at least jsx) is supported.

Maybe the alternate route via ad_hoc tool could be documented for now.

[sureshjoshi]

Ha, that's awesome timing :)

The documentation I was focused on was actually just the recipes and the Prettier plugin for this week - as I've wanted to document it for a long time, but never found the time.

I'll take a look at yours too

Maybe the alternate route via ad_hoc tool could be documented for now.

This is what I use at the moment (https://gist.github.com/sureshjoshi/98fb09f2a340f7c1dad270c4887865a0#file-build-pants-sveltekit), and I'm working on a JS-only command line tool that I wanted to see if it would work with Pants, as that would be a nice example too.

And yeah, you're right, by create react app I just meant the most out-of-the-box example Pants could natively support.