creating a project with "-" in it breaks the build

[isaacabraham]

I created a project called elmish-101. This fails, I think when you run the yarn step - fails to compile. It seems to replace the - with a _ in the path to the project.

Sorry - don't have the error with me any more but it's easy to repro.

[MangelMaxime]

This is related to #7 and it is caused by dotnet template engine.

The solution is to manually fix webpack.config.js or do not use - and . in your project name...

[isaacabraham]

Understood. Perhaps some warning somewhere / somehow? or in the docs?

[MangelMaxime]

@isaacabraham Would it make sense to add it to the README ? With some warnings sign ?

One question, what was your reference to learn how to use the template ? The readme ? A blog post ?
This is just to determine, where we should place it.

[isaacabraham]

I just followed the readme, yeah. IMHO that's the best place to put it as it's directly coupled with the code in the repo itself with some warnings, yes. The error is kind of hard to see - you get a load of red and unless you read the details careful it's easy to miss. In the worse case, this gives Fable a bad reputation because "it doesn't work" when it's not that at all.

[MangelMaxime]

Ok thanks for the answer.

I added a warning in the README acffd3d

[alfonsogarciacaro]

I heard once that it can be fixed by using a - and/or . in the project name placeholder, but I haven't tried, I'll try to check for the next release of the simple template. If it works maybe we can just remove the placeholder from the main file module name, as F# doesn't accept hyphens there.