This is a yeoman generator that will quickly set up the perfect dev environment to make maps and visualizations with CartoDB APIs and client-side library.

First, install yo, then the yo CartoDB generator :

npm i -g yo generator-cartodb

Run the CartoDB generator:

yo cartodb

Answer the few questions asked by the CLI, then tada ! You get a lightweight but complete dev environment (see below). Then, you can run the local web server :

npm start

Features :

• a simple local web server
• files watch + live reload
• js linting (eslint)
• one of the starting templates
• optional: a gist created for you
• optional: es6 to es5 (babel)
• optional: postCSS (for now only has autoprefixer)

npm is used as the task runner (see scripts section in package.json)

Filenames are optimized to appear in a nice order on gists/bl.ocks

Todo :

• add more postCss plugins
• automatic thumbnail generation for bl.ocks?