Getting started

Before we begin, make sure you have the Yeoman scaffolding toolset installed (yo), since it is part of the Yeoman tool set you might have installed it before. Use npm to globally install yo:

npm install --global yo

If you have permissions problems installing a package globally, use a super user or sudo:

sudo npm install --global yo

Once you have yo installed, you will need to install the urca generator as well:

npm install --global urca

You are now ready to create your library!

How to use

The urca generator will help you create a JavaScript or TypeScript application in your working directory. To create your library project, navigate to a new project folder and then use yo to generate your application:

yo urca

The generator will ask you a few questions and will generate it for you.

Questions the generator will ask

• app name
• app description
• app keywords
• public or private repository
• JavaScript or TypeScript
• add or not React to demo page
• GitHub username
• GitHub email
• first and last name
• dependencies:
  • lodash
  • d3
  • tachyons
  • tachyons-extra

Directory structure

When the installation process is over, this is the file structure that will be generated:

.
├── demo/              # demo page
│   └── index.html
│   └── index.j(t)s(x)
│   └── style.css
├── dist/              # distributable version of app built using Parcel
├── node_modules/      # npm managed libraries
├── src/               # project source code
│   └── lib/           # folder for your library
│      └── hello.j(t)s
│   └── index.j(t)s    # app entry point
├── .eslintrc.js
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierignore
├── .prettierrc.js
├── .yo-rc.json
├── LICENSE
├── package.json
├── README.md
├── (tsconfig.json)
├── yarn.lock

Features

• Prettier to format your code
• Eslint to lint your code
• Parcel to automagically compile ES6
• TypeScript
• React to simplify the demo page development
• Git initialization
• README
• MIT license

Scripts

Once you have created the structure of your new app, these are the prompt commands you can run:

• yarn start:demo: to preview and watch for demo page changes (http://localhost:1234)
• yarn build: to build your webapp for production in /dist

Issues & contributing

This project is still in progress. Anyway, if you open an issue (or a PR), I will be happy :)

Todo

• [ ] Jest because testing matters
• [ ] React
  • [ ] to lib
  • [x] to demo page

License

MIT © Ilaria Venturini