[RFC] Dependencies between cli packages

[beerose]

When I attempted to work on one of the codemod issues (#3601), I started looking into dependencies between packages. Especially between cli-related packages. In my case, I needed some utilities like fetch-latest-version, npm-fetch, etc., and they are currently in the @blitzjs/generator package. Though, in my opinion, they are quite general-purpose and not particularly related to the generator package. Ideally, in my opinion, I would see them as utilities in the blitz package for a few reasons:

1. This is our “core” package, where we have a bunch of utilities used by other packages
2. A while back, we decided that blitz will be this “core” package because other packages will have it as a dependency and use the “common” code defined in blitz.
3. I don’t think that some of the utilities in @blitzjs/generator are strictly related to the generator.

However, if we did that, there would be a circular dependency because blitz has @blitzjs/generator as a dependency. I get why it’s done this way, but I’d still like to see the utilities elsewhere. Especially since I wanted to use one of them in the @blitzjs/codemod, and I don’t like the idea of this kind of dependency between @blitzjs/codemod and @blitzjs/generator (as, in my opinion, they are separate packages that could (should?) exist separately. I can also imagine that there can be other utilities that we’ll want to keep in the core (blitz) package AND re-use in other packages like @blitzjs/generator (which currently is not possible).

See attached pictures for possible solutions.

[flybayer]

Very nice, thank you!

I think I'd vote for solution 2, especially since blitz has the CLI and the generator stuff is only CLI, so it makes sense for all the CLI stuff to be in one package.

Second preference would be solution 3 but with the new package named utils or something.