The reverse of jss deploy

[thany]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Working in disconnected mode requires the ability to sync content FROM Sitecore TO the data directory. There is too much of a risk trying to keep everything in the data directory sync among all developers in a team. If even a single little thing is changed directly in Sitecore, a deploy would overwrite that. Disconnected mode should not dictate how the entire development team works with Sitecore, but instead (at most) dictate how developers work who prefer disconnected mode over connected or integrated mode.

See this discussion for more in-depth.

Describe the solution you'd like

jss download --includeContent --includeDictionary

which would do the exact polar opposite of

jss deploy --includeContent --includeDictionary

Describe alternatives you've considered

As linked above, the Umbrella package. I didn't get this to work, probably because it appears to be specifically for SItecore 9.1, whereas JSS itself can be maintained to work with any version, because of first-party-ness and whatall.