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605110015 MDU6SXNzdWU2MDUxMTAwMTU= 731 Option to automatically configure based on directory layout 9599 closed 0     9 2020-04-22T22:17:47Z 2020-04-27T16:32:44Z 2020-04-27T16:30:26Z OWNER  

My Datasette projects increasingly take on the following structure:

  • metadata.json with the metadata
  • One or more something.db database files
  • A templates/ folder with some custom templates
  • A plugins/ folder with some custom plugins

Then I have to run Datasette like this:

datasette *.db -m metadata.json --template-dir=templates --plugins-dir=plugins

It would be really interesting if Datasette had a special mode where you could point it at a directory with the above layout and it would automatically configure itself based on the contents.

Maybe even allow datasette serve to detect if it was passed a single argument that's a directory, not a file, and kick in to "directory layout configuration mode" in that case:

datasette .
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