yeoman-blueprints

For a working example look at generator-angular-blueprints.

Extends Yeoman's NamedBase to allow to your generator to use overridable templates. By using these extended methods yeoman will automatically check for locally created template under first ./blueprints and then ./node_modules before falling back to the global templates in the generator.

YOUR GENERATORS MUST BE UNDER generators/

npm install --save yeoman-blueprints

the generated folder structure for overriding blueprint

root
|-- blueprints
|---- templates
|------ blueprint.json
|------ controller
└-------- template.js

Methods

blueprints.copyTpl

// 'controller' - points to generator you want to use in this case located under generators/controller/
// 'js'         - the file type to be created
// values       - an object of values to be made available to template
this.copyTpl('controller', 'js', './destination/my-controller.js', values);

blueprints.copy

// 'controller' - points to generator you want to use in this case located under generators/controller/
// 'js'         - the file type to be created
this.copy('view', 'html', './destination/my-view.html');

Example:

var blueprint = require('yeoman-blueprints');

module.exports = blueprints.NamedBase.extend({
  writing: function writing() {
    var destDir = './client/app/views/' + this.name + '.controller.js';
             
    // Set the template values
    var values = {value1: 'HelloWorld'}
           
    // Create the template
    this.copyTpl('controller', 'js', destDir, values);
  }
});