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Cool, thanks! “Just use a template syntax that’s also valid code” is a neat trick; I was sort of headed in that direction, but having a concrete example is useful.

What are the commented bits like /* __REMOVE_LINE__ / and / __SCHEMA_IMPORT__ */ used for?

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The template replacer function takes a map from regex to replacement, and asserts that each regex must occur at least once which helps catch mistakes where you update the template but not the code calling it.

__REMOVE_LINE__ is a common hack with our template system to remove lines in the template that are needed to make the template valid, but aren't wanted in the resulting code. We replace /^.__REMOVE_LINE__.$/gm with "". In this case we need to accept the __MODEL__ template var because a different template called with the same arguments needs it, but we don't care in this one.

__SCHEMA_IMPORT__ is another marker we use to replace a whole line, here we replace it with `} from "${generateData.schemaImportPath}"`

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