BROIL

Use broil to generate all the files/folders in your projects for you, each scaffold is based off a simple .json file allowing for easy sharing

Install

npm install -g broil

Command Line Usage

broil [--add] [--gen] [--no-content] scaffold

Examples:

Basic Usage

This will copy an old project into scaffolds/scaffoldName.json, allowing you to build a scaffold in any other folder at any time

cd myOldProject
broil --gen scaffoldName
mkdir myNewProject
cd myNewProject
broil scaffoldName

Create scaffold with no content in files

mkdir myNewProject
cd myNewProject
broil --no-content scaffoldName

Add existing scaffold.json file to the global path for later use

cd pathContainingScaffold
broil --add scaffold.json

scaffold JSON layout

{
    "files": {
        "firstFile.ext": {
            "content": "Hello %%planet%%!"
        },
        "folder": {
            "files": {
                "secondFile.ext": {
                    "content": "Prompted Var: %%prm%%"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "vars": {
        "planet": {
            "content": "Earth"
        },
        "prm": {
            "prompt": "Input: " 
        }
    }
}

TODO:

• Complete DOCS
• add tests
• ensure cross-platform support