Introduction

src-gen is a library used to create code generation packages. src-gen is heavily influenced by gulp, and takes advantage of node-streams.

Generally speaking, globs are submitted to src-gen functions that target a set of files in a template directory. Those files are then processed, or copied, and output into a target directory.

In practice most files in a template are pass-through copies of files in the source directory, but some files are also templated via embedded JS as provided by Lodash templating. By default a file with a .ftl extensions is processed as template and the resulting output is placed in the target directory in a file of the same name without the .ftl extension. So a file source/package.json.ftl in the source directory is process and output into target/package.json.

However, a source generation template isn't limited to embeded JS and copies. The full power of Node and NPM modules are also available. The idea though is to leverage processing streams based on globs, and process each file.

Here is some good reading material on Gulp streams: gulpy, gulp-vision.

Overview

The idea behind this src-gen is to help easily create new templates for code generation tasks. I've used the lib to create procs, new-npms, static nginx sites, even pom.xml based maven java projects.

Additionally, there is a command line that executes src-gen templates. Link forth-coming.

Installation

%> npm install src-gen --save

Usage

src-gen is geared around globs and pipes, just like gulp. So, given a directory structure like this:

new-npm
├── gitignore
├── index.js.ftl
├── license
├── package.json
├── readme.md
├── src
│   └── FirstClass.coffee.ftl
├── tests
│   ├── lib
│   │   └── globals.coffee
│   └── src
│       └── FirstTest.coffee.ftl
└── travis.yml

Produced via: (M-1 M-! tree --noreport files/source/test1/new-npm)

Then we can merge a number of processing commands. The code below shows how this might be done in coffee. First the rungen function is created which takes an options object with the source, target, name, etc. With opts src-gen is initialized. It will use the source directory as cwd while creating streams for processing files, and then target as the dest() of the output streams. These are concepts from gulp in general, but really they are the interface to vinyl-fs.

  rungen = (opts, done) ->
    # Alias of project name as derived from directory.
	# May need to sanitize name to make it a proper symbol.
	opts.symbol = opts.name.replace('-', '')
    { copy, gen, to, toJson, packageFile, run, file } = require('src-gen')(opts)
    gen(
      copy('**/*.coffee', 'license', 'readme.md', 'travis.yml')
	  file('package.json', toJson(packageFile(opts)))
	  to('gitignore', '.gitignore')
	  to('src/FirstClass.coffee.ftl', "#{opts.name}.coffee")
	  to('tests/src/FirstTest.coffee.ftl', "#{opts.name}-tests.coffee")
	  to('index.js.ftl', 'index.js')
	)
	.on('end', (err) ->
	  if !err? and !opts.$isTesting
	    run(
		  'npm install coffee-script lodash nject moment --save'
		  'npm install mocha chai gulp --save-dev'
		  'git init'
		  "chmod +x #{opts.entryPoint}"
		  'npm test'
        )(done)
	  else
	    done()
	)

License

See license file.

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