crtemp

This cli app generates code templates

Instalation

Run npm install crtemp -g to install as a global dependency, Or npm install crtemp --D to install as a dev dependency in the working directory.

How it works

To use this app on the command line type npx crtemp. It will prompt for missing options. Acceptable options and their aliases are --git, --dep, --yes and -g, -d, -y. Their definitions are as follows:

• --git: Initialize a git repository
• --dep: Comfirms the installation of dependencies found in the generated package.json file
• --yes: If this option is present, it skips all the prompt and generates the app using the default options. To select a template, type the template name without hyphens like so npx crtemp -y react-app. NB: Currently supported templates are express and react apps with their crtemp template names as express-app and react-app.

Contributing to the project

Adding Support for new templates

At the moment this package only supports 2 app niches (express-app and react-app) and can be found in the file config object. Adding support for various templates is very straight forward;

• Update the constants.js file adding the new template name as a property. The constants.js file can be found at ./src/utils/constants.js
• Append a new object to templates object in the file config object. The appended object should represent the new template root directory. See example below

  {
    "name": constants[new_template_name],
    "dirs": [],
    "files": []
  }

NB: The name prop is gotten from the constants object. If there be any need, a new folder should be created in the template files folder at ./src/templateFiles/. The contents of the folder should only be unique files relating to the new template (package.json, .env files), files not under this category should be represented by the file name in the files array of the new template object.

Generating template files

To generate files required it uses a file config object with set of rules to follow ->

• The root directory object(signifying a folder) has name dirs and files properties
• The name prop is the name of the folder
• The files prop is an array containing a list of files represented by their filename and extention
• The dirs array is a repetition of the root directory with its object and properties as well

  const config = {
    "templates": [
      {
        "name": 'express-app',
        "dirs": [
          {
            "name": "src",
            "dirs": [
              {"name": "configs"}
            ],
            "files": ["app.js"]
          }, 
          {
            "name": "test",
            "dirs": []
          }
        ],
        "files": [
          ".env", "package.json", "index.js"
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": constants.REACT,
        "dirs": [],
        "files": []
      }
    ]
  }