Installing

You can get lerna-templater via npm.

npm i -D lerna-templater

Usage

As an import

import { TemplaterOptions, templater } from 'lerna-template';

/**
 * @param {string} cwd The current working directory.
 * @param {TemplaterOptions} options The options for templater.
 */
templater(cwd, options);

As a commandline tool

npx lerna-templater -n "Name of the new package" -d "Description of the new package"

or

"scripts": {
  "create": "lerna-templater"
}

npm run create -- -n "Name of the new package" -d "Description of the new package"

API

templater(cwd, optioins)

Generates a new package from cwd/options.template directory into cwd/options.packages/options.name directory. The cwd argument is the current working directory.

TemplaterOptions

• name string, required
  The name of the new package
• description string, optional
  The description of the new package.
• scope string, optional
  The scope of the new package. Default value is the scope of the main package.json.
• packages string, optional
  The relative path of the packages directory. Default value is the first element of the lerna.json's packages array.
• template string, optional
  The relative path of the template directory. Default values is __template__.

Mustache templating

The lerna-templater uses Mustache.js for templating. If the template directory contains files which ends with .mustache, the templater will render them with Mustache.js. After the rendering, the .mustache extension will be removed from the filename. For example: package.json.mustache will be saved as package.json.

Available tags:

• {{{name}}} - The name of the new package.
• {{{descriptio}}} - The description of the new package.
• {{{scope}}} - The scope of the new package.
• {{{packages}}} - The relative path of the packages (output) directory.
• {{{template}}} - The relative path of the template (input) directory.
• {{{version}}} - The version of the new package.
• {{{repoDir}}} - The relative path of the new package in the repository.

Example

Directory structure

.
├── __template__/
|   ├── package.json.mustache
|   └── README.md.mustache
├── packages/
├── lerna.json
└── package.json

Content of the files

• __template__/package.json.mustache:

  {
    "name": "{{{scope}}}{{{name}}}",
    "description": "{{{description}}}",
    "version": "{{{version}}}",
    "repository": {
      "directory": "{{{repoDir}}}"
    }
  }

• __template__/README.md.mustache:

  # {{{name}}}
  {{{description}}}

• lerna.json:

  {
    "packages": [
      "packages/*"
    ],
    "version": "0.0.0"
  }

• package.json:

  {
    "name": "@examplescope/example-monorepo"
  }

Output

Running the npx lerna-templater -n "example-newpackage" -d "Description for the new example package" command will result this output:

• packages/example-newpackage directory
• package.json and README.md in the packages/example-newpackage directory
• package.json:

  {
    "name": "@examplescope/example-newpackage",
    "description": "Description for the new example package",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "repository": {
      "directory": "packages/example-newpackage"
    }
  }

• README.md:

  # example-newpackage
  Description of the new example package

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