Yeoman generator for PowerPages: YO PowerPages!

The Power Pages Yeoman Generator helps you quickly create a Portal template with the right project structure. It's used along with Yeoman to prompt you with questions to create the portal scaffolding (the folders & files). You can use it to create:

• Webpage
• Webfile
• Webtemplate
• Content Snippet
• Page Template

Installing Yeoman

Yeoman is installed using npm. If this is not already installed on your machine, you will need to install the node, which npm is bundled with. You can find out if you have npm installed by running the following command:

>>> npm --version

Once you have npm installed, you can install Yeoman globally and add it to your PATH by running the following command:

>>> npm install yo -g

Using the Power Pages Generator

Install the generator

>>> npm install -g @microsoft/generator-powerpages

Start the tool with the following command in a system prompt

>>> yo @microsoft/powerpages

You will be prompted with a question to choose the template.

Choose the template and answer respective prompts. Your new template is ready!

Running Sub-Generator

You can directly run a sub-generator with following command.

>>> yo @microsoft/powerpages:sub-generator-name

Available Sub-Generators|

webpage webfile webtemplate contentsnippet pagetemplate

So, If you want to add webpage, run:

>>> yo @microsoft/powerpages:webpage

Using Params to Generate New Component

Apart from using interactive menu you can directly pass params in system prompt for supported sub-generators.

yo @microsoft/powerpages:sub-generator [params]

You can use --help to know required params.

yo @microsoft/powerpages:sub-generator --help