Hi there, This might be asked earlier, but I couldn't find it. I want to create a new repo from a .zip file, which works fine, but I do not want to create a local project for it. In our setup, our .zip template creates the prismic repo, and then the project is connected via a new project on vercel.…

Hey @andrew.wynyard , Welcome to the Prismic community :slight_smile: These are great questions! I'll answer them in order. Creating a repo without a local project This is possible. You can create a theme with one folder inside of it: custom-types/, which contains your JSON models. When you want t…

Hi Sam, Thanks for your quick reply, super appreciate it. Creating a repo without a local project This is how we are doing it, as we have the JSON theme deployed within our master project. This has a .zip file attached. running prismic theme --theme-url <your-theme-url>.zip works to create the rep…

@samlittlefair any more info on this one?

Hi @andrew.wynyard , I looked into this, and unfortunately I don't think it's possible. We're working on some upgrades to the CLI right now, so I'll pass this suggestion to the developer in charge of the project and let you know what happens. Sam

Hi Andrew, Sorry to say! I actually misspoke. You can include boilerplate documents in a theme command. (This wasn't previously documented, so I didn't know about it.) To do so, create the boilerplate documents in a Prismic repo, and then use the export feature to export them. Then, you can include…

Hey Andy, I'm sorry for the run-around here. I misunderstood again — we don't actually have a tool for generating signatures for theme documents. They can only be generated internally. So, at the moment it is only theoretically possible to include boilerplate in a theme. I'm going to submit a featur…

Creating a themed repo without local project

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Creating a themed repo without local project

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