[Feature]: Add npm init / yarn create initialiser

[dj-stormtrooper]

🚀 Feature Proposal

Jest already has jest --init wizard which makes initial setup very fancy, but it doesn't have starter-kit wrapper for package managers, like npm init or yarn create:

• https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/commands/npm-init#examples
• https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/

For example playwright has such initialiser, same as create-react-app and many more

Motivation

I often setup new projects with Jest and help other developers to do so and it's nice to have standardised way for the initial setup

Example

npm init jest@latest

This command will run jest --init wizard

Pitch

This is a user-friendly way to setup new projects, it makes the process smoother and more convenient

I can make a PR if the approach is ok

[mrazauskas]

I can make a PR if the approach is ok

Sure, just do it. That’s a good idea and I like to hear that you find it useful for your own work.

[mrazauskas]

Useful reference: the create-playwright repo is here: https://github.com/microsoft/create-playwright

[dj-stormtrooper]

Great, thanks!

[dj-stormtrooper]

Package name create-jest has been taken unfortunately, but I contacted the owner in case he will be able to transfer the package name to the Jest team (I used list of npm maintainers from the jest-cli)

npm int @jest/jest is also fine, but not the best

[SimenB]

Ah, it's owned by @cpojer 😀 I'll ping him

EDIT, haha even better - he pinged me 2 days ago about this 😅

So yeah, the package is ours - feel free to send a PR 🙂

[dj-stormtrooper]

he pinged me 2 days ago about this 😅

Yeah, I reached him with email)) Thanks to npm view, they show package owner's email

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