fastify-scaffold

I write a fair number of web apps that use fastify (as a web server), marko (for templating), and lasso (for asset bundling).

I got sick of manually rigging all of those things together, so I wrote this simple CLI that will scaffold together a project with fastify, marko, and lasso, all configured to play nicely.

It's really just for me, but if you like it, cool.

What it does

fastify-scaffold makes a few folders:

/plugins

If you're new to fastify I'd suggest becoming more familiar with it, particularly it's plugin-centric architecture.

fastify-scaffold will fastify.register(require()) every file that it finds in the /plugins directory. So you can really do anything in this folder, I tend to put a lot of routes in here.

/pages

fastify-scaffold doesn't do anything magical with this folder, but I put all of my marko templates and resources for specific pages here.

/components

A home for marko components.

/public/assets

The entire /public folder is served at, you guessed it, /public. /public/assets is a great place for things like images or static JS libraries (jQuery, perhaps).

/public/static

^ /public/static is where lasso outputs bundled resources, so this is a pretty important place.

Usage

First, you'll need to install the CLI.

git clone [email protected]:charlesread/fastify-scaffold.git
cd fastify-scaffold
npm i
npm link  # you may need to `sudo npm link` depending on how you've installed node

Now you're ready to make a project.

mkdir myProject
cd myProject
fastify-scaffold -r  # --runImmediately, optional

More to come.