AngularJS generator

Yeoman generator for AngularJS

Usage

Install generator-angular-xec:

npm install -g generator-angular-xec

Make a new directory, and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-project && cd $_

Run yo angular-xec, optionally passing an app name:

yo angular-xec [app-name]

Run grunt for building and grunt serve for preview

Generators

Available generators:

• angular-xec (aka angular-xec:app)
• angular-xec:controller
• angular-xec:directive
• angular-xec:filter
• angular-xec:route
• angular-xec:service
• angular-xec:provider
• angular-xec:factory
• angular-xec:value
• angular-xec:constant
• angular-xec:decorator
• angular-xec:view

Note: Generators are to be run from the root directory of your app.

App

Sets up a new AngularJS app, generating all the boilerplate you need to get started. The app generator also installs Bootstrap and additional AngularJS modules, such as angular-resource (installed by default).

Example:

yo angular-xec

Route

Generates a controller and view, and configures a route in app/scripts/app.js connecting them.

Example:

yo angular-xec:route myroute

Produces app/scripts/controllers/myrouteController.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('MyrouteController', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Produces app/views/myroute.html:

<div ng-controller="MyrouteController as myrouteVm">
    <p>This is the myroute view</p>
</div>

Explicitly provide route URI

Example:

yo angular-xec:route myRoute --uri=my/route

Produces controller and view as above and adds a route to app/scripts/app.js with URI my/route

Controller

Generates a controller in app/scripts/controllers.

Example:

yo angular-xec:controller user

Produces app/scripts/controllers/userController.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('UserController', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Directive

Generates a directive in app/scripts/directives.

Example:

yo angular-xec:directive myDirective

Produces app/scripts/directives/myDirective.js:

angular.module('myMod').directive('myDirective', function () {
  return {
    template: '<div></div>',
    restrict: 'E',
    link: function postLink(scope, element, attrs) {
      element.text('this is the myDirective directive');
    }
  };
});

Filter

Generates a filter in app/scripts/filters.

Example:

yo angular-xec:filter myFilter

Produces app/scripts/filters/myFilter.js:

angular.module('myMod').filter('myFilter', function () {
  return function (input) {
    return 'myFilter filter:' + input;
  };
});

View

Generates an HTML view file in app/views.

Example:

yo angular-xec:view user

Produces app/views/user.html:

<p>This is the user view</p>

Service

Generates an AngularJS service.

Example:

yo angular-xec:service myService

Produces app/scripts/services/myService.js:

angular.module('myMod').service('myService', function () {
  // ...
});

You can also do yo angular-xec:factory, yo angular-xec:provider, yo angular-xec:value, and yo angular-xec:constant for other types of services.

Decorator

Generates an AngularJS service decorator.

Example:

yo angular-xec:decorator serviceName

Produces app/scripts/decorators/serviceNameDecorator.js:

angular.module('myMod').config(function ($provide) {
    $provide.decorator('serviceName', function ($delegate) {
      // ...
      return $delegate;
    });
  });

Options

In general, these options can be applied to any generator, though they only affect generators that produce scripts.

Minification Safe

Removed

By default, generators produce unannotated code. Without annotations, AngularJS's DI system will break when minified. Typically, these annotations that make minification safe are added automatically at build-time, after application files are concatenated, but before they are minified. The annotations are important because minified code will rename variables, making it impossible for AngularJS to infer module names based solely on function parameters.

resolve: {
  User: function(myService) {
    return MyService();
  }
}

will need to be manually done like so:

resolve: {
  User: ['myService', function(myService) {
    return MyService();
  }]
}

Add to Index

By default, new scripts are added to the index.html file. However, this may not always be suitable. Some use cases:

• Manually added to the file
• Auto-added by a 3rd party plugin
• Using this generator as a subgenerator

To skip adding them to the index, pass in the skip-add argument:

yo angular-xec:service serviceName --skip-add

Bower Components

The following packages are always installed by the app generator:

• angular
• angular-route
• angular-mocks
• angular-scenario

The following additional modules are available as components on bower, and installable via bower install:

• angular-cookies
• angular-loader
• angular-resource
• angular-sanitize

All of these can be updated with bower update as new versions of AngularJS are released.

Configuration

Yeoman generated projects can be further tweaked according to your needs by modifying project files appropriately.

Output

You can change the app directory by adding a appPath property to bower.json. For instance, if you wanted to easily integrate with Express.js, you could add the following:

{
  "name": "yo-test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  ...
  "appPath": "public"
}

This will cause Yeoman-generated client-side files to be placed in public.

Testing

Running grunt test will run the unit tests with karma.

License

BSD license