Stimpak: A Pattern Management System

Stimpak is a system for defining, discovering, and re-using code & workflow patterns:

• Formalize code and workflow patterns with minimal effort so that they can be re-used and shared with others.
• Cut down on time doing routine tasks by generating new files based upon simple patterns.
• Update old files with new patterns using simple merging strategies.
• Develop automated expert systems that guide users through complicated tasks.

Main Features

• Built for Ease-of-Use
  • Everything about stimpak was designed with ease-of-use and time-savings in mind.
  • Minimal learning required. Get up and running within a few minutes.
  • Automatic just-in-time transpiling for automatic backwards compatible with older versions of nodejs.
• Minimally-Opinionated Generator Design
  • Very little learning required to write your own generators. Make your first pattern in less than 5 minutes.
  • Setup your directory structures the way you want. Change them later if you want to.
  • Name your methods how you'd like. Except for one .setup method on each generator, you're free to use any method name you'd like, or to change them later.
• Composable Generators
  • Create several small generators that work independently.
  • Combine generators together on-the-fly via the CLI.
  • Combine generators into a new generator that can guide the user through multiple tasks at once.
• Integrated Templates
  • Choose your own template engine, or use EJS by default.
  • Answers to prompts are automatically used as values in templates.
• Smart File Merging
  • Easily designate files that should be merged instead of overwritten.
  • Use built-in or custom merging strategies for a variety of file formats.
  • Merge strategies using virtual file objects to avoid touching the filesystem more than necessary.
• Customizable ASCII-Art
  • Built-in ASCII-Art generator for BIG popping titles in any of 680 built-in figlet fonts.
  • Optionally choose not to have ASCII-Art whenever you use your generators. It's all up to you!
• Quality-Controlled
  • Well-tested with meaningful assertions.
  • 100% test coverage.
  • Continuous Integration
  • Automated Code Quality Auditing
  • Automated Dependency Management
  • Automated Up-Stream Security Vulnerability Reporting

Getting Started Guides

Stimpak can be used as both a command-line interface (CLI), and as a standalone library that can be embedded into your own code. Choose the guide below to help you get started with either integration method, or with writing a new stimpak generator from scratch:

1. Stimpak Command-Line Interface
2. Stimpak API
3. Stimpak Generator Development

How to Contribute

We love pull requests and issue reports! Really!

If you find a bug or have a feature suggestion, please feel free to submit an issue here.

For more information on how to submit a pull request, please read this guide on contributing to open-source projects.