[nullified-vga]

I just don't understand the motivation for the cli. Isn't it much easier to just clone the mern boilerplate repo, rather than npm installing some cli, then running a command. If there are no options, what's the point? Admittedly, I might be missing something.

[dbla]

I think a cli tool is usually easier because you don't have to rm -rf .git in order to set up your own repo.

[addandsubtract]

You can use the following git command to move everything except for the .git files to a new location [1]

    git checkout-index -f -a --prefix=/path/to/folder/
  

[1] http://www.tekkie.ro/methodology/use-git-checkout-index-init...