npm init initializer / create-nebular-app

[nunovieira]

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Issue description

Current behavior:

Doing a git clone of this repo is not the best way to start a project. It comes with stuff related to the development of ngx-admin, that doesn't interest the new Nebular application.
Also, the starter-kit branch looks outdated compared to the master branch.

Expected behavior:

My suggestion is to transform this repo in a npm init initializer, similar to create-react-app. IMO, that could improve the developer experience and increase the adoption of Nebular.
I understand this has a lot more components than a simple React app, but I believe it's a better experience to start with a simple app and add stuff as we need it, than to start with a big boilerplate code and remove stuff we don't need. Even the starter-kit branch looks bloated to me.

Steps to reproduce:

Compare the experience of starting a ngx-admin/Nebular app and a React app.

[nnixaa]

Hi @nunovieira, thanks for the suggestion, that sounds interesting. But how would we do that? And will we be able to keep both ways to start with ngx-admin?

[nunovieira]

I guess we need to investigate how npm initializers work. Never done it.
I don't think we need the "git clone this to start a Nebular app" way. A nice npm initializer (or some other method I'm not considering) would be a much better experience.