Based on generator-node-gulp

This generator creates a new Node.js module, generating all the boilerplate you need to get started with best-of-breed from the gulp ecosystem. The generator also optionally installs additional gulp plugins, see the list below.

Installation

Install the generator by running: npm install -g generator-node-gulp-coffee.

Options

• --test-framework=[framework]

  Defaults to mocha. Can be switched to another supported testing framework like jasmine.

• --skip-install

  Skips the automatic execution of bower and npm after scaffolding has finished.

Features

• Customize the dependencies prompt by editing the settings.json file see.
• Prefills prompt with the last used values for
  • GitHub username
  • Author's Name
  • Author's Email
  • Author's Homepage

devDependencies

• Mocha Unit Testing with gulp-mocha
• Automagically lint your code with gulp-coffeelint
• Optional – Measuring code coverage with gulp-istanbul
• Optional – Upload LCOV data to coveralls.io with coveralls
• Optional – Bump npm versions with gulp-bump
• Optional - Jasmine Unit Testing with gulp-jasmine
• Optional - Easy dependency injection for node.js unit testing with [rewire] (https://github.com/jhnns/rewire)

dependencies

You can customize the dependencies prompt by editing the settings.json. The file is located in the root of the generator-node-gulp /usr/local/lib/node_modules/generator-node-gulp-coffee/.

• debug
• Lo-Dash
• q

settings.json

By default, the file looks something like this.

{
  "meta": {
    "githubUsername": "stefanbuck",
    "authorName": "Stefan Buck",
    "authorEmail": "[email protected]",
    "authorUrl": "www.stefanbuck.com"
  },
  "dependencies": [
    {
      "name": "lodash",
      "description": "A utility library"
    },
    {
      "name": "q",
      "description": "A library for promises"
    },
    {
      "name": "debug",
      "description": "tiny node.js debugging utility"
    }
  ]
}

Usage

At the command-line, cd into an empty directory, run this command and follow the prompts.

yo node-gulp-coffee

Note that this template will generate files in the current directory, so be sure to change to a new directory first if you don't want to overwrite existing files.

Support

Should you have any problems or wishes for improvements, feel free to open an issue.

License

MIT License

Logo by Koji Wakayama