📌 Tracking: Rolling out v2 and automated updates to other repositories I work on

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Update (April 2025): This work has mostly completed. See #2145 for tracking of making automated updates fully inferable: i.e. not needing a create-typescript-app.config.js config file. milestone/8 Transition Mode Automation tracks issues in that area.

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Now that create-typescript-app@v2 is stable (#1831 -> #1955) and adhering to the long-term vision of using Bingo (#1181), I'd like to roll out the v2 to other repositories I'm a maintainer on.

But there's a catch: I'd like this rollout to include getting each repository auto-updating to the latest version of the template. #1965 tracks adding a Block to enable them to do that. 🤖 ✅

Automatic refers to whether the repositories are able to fully infer their current options without a create-typescript-app.config.js. Running the following command should be enough to initialize most repositories:

npx create-typescript-app --add-cta-transitions

Repos with refinements that aren't yet inferable can use an explicit config file

// create-typescript-app.config.js
// 👋 Hi! This is an optional config file for create-typescript-app (CTA).
// Repos created with CTA or its underlying framework Bingo don't use one by default.
// A CTA config file allows automatic updates to the repo that preserve customizations.
// For more information, see Bingo's docs:
//   https://www.create.bingo/execution#transition-mode
// Eventually these values should be inferable, making this config file unnecessary:
//   https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/bingo/issues/128
import { createConfig } from "create-typescript-app";

export default createConfig({
  refinements: {
    // ...
  },
});

pnpm add create-typescript-app -D;
npx create-typescript-app

Status key:

• ✅: Done
• 👀: In Review
• ⏳: In Progress
• 🛠️: Blocked on CTA/Bingo issue
• ⚪️: To do
• 🛑: Blocked on external issue

Status	Issue	PR	Automatic
✅	all-contributors-auto-action#898	all-contributors-auto-action#900	🛠️
✅	all-contributors-for-repository#771	all-contributors-for-repository#772	✅
✅	all-contributors-inferred#81	all-contributors-inferred#82	🛠️
✅	all-properties-lazy#26	all-properties-lazy#27	✅
✅	are-docs-informative#683	are-docs-informative#686	🛠️
✅	cached-factory#20	cached-factory#22	🛠️
✅	co-author-to-username#414	co-author-to-username#415	✅
✅	console-table-without-index#332	console-table-without-index#334	🛠️
✅	cspell-populate-words#24	cspell-populate-words#25	🛠️
✅	debug-for-file#64	debug-for-file#69	🛠️
✅	description-to-co-authors#197	description-to-co-authors#201	🛠️
✅	emoji-platform-data#600	emoji-platform-data#607	🛠️
✅	eslint-fix-utils#75	eslint-fix-utils#79	🛠️
✅	eslint-plugin-erasable-syntax-only#46	eslint-plugin-erasable-syntax-only#51	🛠️
✅	formatly#74	formatly#81	🛠️
✅	get-github-auth-token#374	get-github-auth-token#375	🛠️
✅	github-default-labels#26	github-default-labels#27	🛠️
✅	github-sponsors-to-markdown#729	github-sponsors-to-markdown#749	🛠️
✅	github-username-to-emails#563	github-username-to-emails#565	🛠️
✅	import-local-or-npx#25	import-local-or-npx#26	✅
✅	JoshuaKGoldberg#402	JoshuaKGoldberg#406	🛠️
✅	new-github-repository#12		🛠️
✅	notion-rich-text-to-markdown#373	notion-rich-text-to-markdown#389	✅
✅	npm-username-to-packages#298	npm-username-to-packages#299	🛠️
✅	object-strings-deep#17		✅
✅	octokit-from-auth#18	octokit-from-auth#19	✅
✅	package-json-validator#172	package-json-validator#178	🛠️
✅	populate-all-contributors-for-repository#14	populate-all-contributors-for-repository#15	🛠️
✅	prettier-plugin-curly#629	prettier-plugin-curly#630	🛠️
✅	prune-github-notifications#200	prune-github-notifications#201	🛠️
✅	refined-saved-replies#1048	refined-saved-replies#1051	🛠️
✅	release-it-action#477	release-it-action#479	🛠️
✅	remove-dependencies#52	remove-dependencies#59	🛠️
✅	set-github-repository-labels#15	set-github-repository-labels#16	🛠️
✅	should-semantic-release#546	should-semantic-release#547	🛠️
✅	text-table-fast#349	text-table-fast#362	🛠️
✅	tidelift-me-up#664	tidelift-me-up#684	🛠️
✅	ts-function-inliner#205	tidelift-me-up#206	🛠️
✅	without-undefined-properties#12	without-undefined-properties#13	🛠️
✅	zod-tsconfig#17	zod-tsconfig#19	🛠️
👀	eslint-plugin-package-json#969	eslint-plugin-package-json#993	🛠️
🛑	console-fail-test#1041	console-fail-test#1046	⚪️
🛑	emojipedia#44	emojipedia#45	⚪️
🛑	eslint-plugin-expect-type#821	eslint-plugin-expect-type#825	🛠️
🛑	github-username-to-emails-site#763		⚪️
🛑	mock-react-redux#72		⚪️
🛑	sentences-per-line#779		⚪️
🛑	sinon-timers-repeatable#871	sinon-timers-repeatable#894	✅
🛑	stoptalking#657		⚪️
🛑	tidelift-me-up-site#845		⚪️
🛑	ts-api-utils#727		⚪️

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Status update: I'd wanted to complete this within March, but am running at what looks like a week behind. I'm hopeful I'll get most-to-all of these converted by the end of this week - EOD April 4th.

The 🛑 blocked repos are due to missing Blocks that I'll implement soon:

• 🚀 Feature: Add an opt-in block for setting up an ESLint plugin #1936
• 🚀 Feature: Add web-ext builder Block for browser extensions #2031

Most repos should be able to infer most-to-all of their customizations from disk:

• Addons:
  • The most common Addon customizations -Codecov and Vitest- are inferable: 🚀 Feature: Infer blockCodecov env from files on disk #2076, 🚀 Feature: Infer blockVitest config arguments from files on disk #2077
  • ESLint is the next most common, tracked in: 🚀 Feature: Infer straightforward blockESLint entries from files on disk #2080
• Blocks:
  • Additions are inferable as of 🚀 Feature: Have Stratum Templates infer refinement Block additions from disk in transition mode bingo#332
  • Exclusions are not yet inferable; I'll likely file an issue soon
• Presets: are inferable as of 🚀 Feature: Provide a way for Stratum templates to infer --preset during --mode transition bingo#237

Roughly 50% of repos are ✅ running CTA 2 with at least a create-typescript-app.config.js.

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Status update: all the repos I'd meant to target are now either ✅ onboarded or 🛑 blocked. Closing this issue out as done.

Note that many of the onboarded repos have an explicit create-typescript-app.config.js. Which is not ideal. #2145 and milestone/8 Transition Mode Automation track removing the need for that config file across most-to-all repos.