create-3h-app

A simple app initializer.

Introduction

This is a CLI tool that helps you quickly initialize a development environment for your awesome front-end app.

Usage

$ create-3h-app --help
A simple app initializer.

Usage:
  create-3h-app [options]

Options:
  --name, -n <pkg>              The name of the package
  --author, -a <name>           The author of the package
  --desc, -d <description>      The description of the package
  --keywords, -k <words...>     The keywords of the package
  --repo, -r <repository>       The repository of the package
  --no-install                  Do not install dependencies instantly
  --help, -h                    Show help info

Example

npm init 3h-app -- -n my-awesome-app -a Peter -d "This is my awesome app".
# or
npx create-3h-app -n my-awesome-app -a Peter -d "This is my awesome app".

Template Structure

my-awesome-app/
+-- public/
| +-- index.html
| `-- index.css
+-- src/
| `-- index.js
+-- test/
| `-- index.html
+-- .gitignore
+-- LICENSE
+-- README.md
+-- rollup.config.js
`-- dev-server.js

Workflow

Generally, you

1. Write your source code in the src folder;
2. Test your app using the dev server (by executing npm test) which loads your source code directly;
3. Build your app by executing npm run build;
4. Deploy your app in the public directory...

Built-in Scripts

| name | description | |:--------|:-----------------------| | test | Launch the dev server. | | build | Build your code. |

The development server employs herver to serve your app for testing. It will serve your source code directly from src so that after you change something in your source code, you just need to refresh your page to test it. Other resource files are supposed to be put in the public folder, and they will be served properly by the development server. Additionally, files of local libs inside /node_modules can be loaded using URLs starting with /node_modules.

After building your code by executing npm run build, a bundled JavaScript file(index.js) will be placed in the public folder, which will be transformed by babel, bundled by rollup and minified by terser. Finally, you should get your app in the public folder.

License

MIT License.