I just don't understand the motivation for the cli. Isn't it much easier to just clone the mern boilerplate repo, rather than npm installing some cli, then running a command. If there are no options, what's the point? Admittedly, I might be missing something.
I've been using GitLab at work for 8 months or so and we love it. It comes packed up with GitLAb-CI, which we use a lot, and Mattermost, a Slack clone. I'm hoping my boss will come to his senses and switch to Mattermost.