[practicalpants]

Yep, I have something vaguely similar to this which I've built over the years for my own projects, essentially generators for boilerplate for back end stuff, written with preferred libraries, coding styles, testing approaches, etc. From who I know, I think it's common for back end devs.

Yet I've never really built 'a simple' app... It does always requires substantial time tweaking, customizing, and building things that just can't be automatically generated. I can't imagine for anything that's not just dead simple that you could take the generators all the way.

But I see you're targeting front end folks, which makes sense. If they have simple use cases this could work nicely for them.

[mikermcneil]

After building one of the largest backend frameworks for Node.js I completely understand where you're coming from. It's taken us a very long time to solve this problem, and I can say with complete intellectual honesty that I believe we've solved it. Check out http://michaelmcneil.com/post/112978579967/mikermcneil-outco... for a more technical explanation of how the compiler works.