How to use custom repo for SPFx templates?

[Adam-it]

Description

I know there is this guidance https://github.com/SharePoint/spfx/blob/main/common/docs/creating-a-new-template.md
and the template style guide, but TBH it looks for me like AI generated with a lot of info, which in the end did not help me set up a new repo with my custom templates, which I think should be quite easy 😄.
I have this https://github.com/[Adam-it/spfx-templates](https://github.com/Adam-it/spfx-templates)

But when I try to use my repo either using --template-url option

or pulling it locally and specifying it as --local-source

it, as you can see in the screenshots, does not work.

My question is: how to set it up 🙂?

[nick-pape]

Yes, we should update the documentation here -- this document is for adding a new template in this repo, not for creating your own template collection. We are currently missing documentation for that, but it is very straightforward.

[Adam-it]

ok. waiting for the guidance then. Really looking forward to test it out

[chid]

hi @nick-pape and @Adam-it is the correct command the following?

node apps/spfx-cli/bin/spfx list-templates \
    --remote-source https://github.com/chid/spfx-templates/tree/main

If the above works, then followed by the below

node apps/spfx-cli/bin/spfx create --template "webpart-custom" \
    --library-name react --component-name "hello world" --remote-source https://github.com/chid/spfx-templates/tree/main