Frontools 2.0

[Igloczek]

Idea:
Make Frontools a plugin system and publish only as Node.js package (npm) to improve extendability and modularity, making it more front-end oriented at same time.

Usage will be simple:
package.json

{
  "dependencies": {
    "magento2-frontools": "^2.0.0",
    "magento2-frontools-babel": "~0.2.0",
    "magento2-frontools-scss": "^1.0.0"
  }
}

Tools that might be useful:

• https://github.com/lerna/lerna

[kjugi]

Bring webpack here 😁

EDIT:
Or even this: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel

[joshuaadickerson]

If you wanted to also support Composer installs (ugh), you could just check the parent directory name for config.projectPath. If it's composer, go up 3 directories. If it's node_modules, go up 2. You could even have it fallback to search for an app directory and inside that a design directory.

[Igloczek]

@joshuaadickerson even if the core of Frontools will be available only as a Node.js package, there will be a Composer package required to deal with other required files like package.json and be able to use them in M2 project.