Install

yarn add file-genesis

Use

const path = require("path");
const { File } = require("file-genesis");
const gitignore = `
  .DS_Store
  node_modules
`;

let filepathPlain = path.join(__dirname, ".gitignore");
File(filepathPlain).plain(gitignore);

Note: Prettier is used for formatting during creation

API

.plain(), .symlink(), .template()

This is used to specify the type and pass content

plain

File("/path/to/file.ext").plain("content");

symlink

File("/path/to/file.ext").symlink("/path/to/src", "/path/to/dest");

template

let variables = { replaceMe: "withThisValue" };
File("/path/to/file.ext").template("path/to/template.ext", variables);

Docs

• api-brainstorm

  Multiple brainstorming attempts & old README content

• debug

  Documented debugging

• resources

  3rd party API's

• todo

  Features & bugs by version

Goals

• consistent api for symlinks, plain UTF-8 files and templates
• interoperable with content-genesis

Related

• content-genesis @github | @npm
• library-genesis @github | @npm