id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason
605110015,MDU6SXNzdWU2MDUxMTAwMTU=,731,Option to automatically configure based on directory layout,9599,closed,0,,,9,2020-04-22T22:17:47Z,2020-04-27T16:32:44Z,2020-04-27T16:30:26Z,OWNER,,"My Datasette projects increasingly take on the following structure:

- `metadata.json` with the metadata
- One or more `something.db` database files
- A `templates/` folder with some custom templates
- A `plugins/` folder with some custom plugins

Then I have to run Datasette like this:

    datasette *.db -m metadata.json --template-dir=templates --plugins-dir=plugins

It would be really interesting if Datasette had a special mode where you could point it at a directory with the above layout and it would automatically configure itself based on the contents.

Maybe even allow `datasette serve` to detect if it was passed a single argument that's a directory, not a file, and kick in to ""directory layout configuration mode"" in that case:

    datasette .
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