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@heusalagroup/create-command

A command-line tool that makes it easy to create lightweight, zero-dependency Node.js command line projects with TypeScript. For more information on our style of Node.js projects, check out HG.fi.

Usage

To create a minimal command line project, run either of the following commands:

npm init @heusalagroup/command ./foo-command

...or..

npm install -g @heusalagroup/command
create-command ./foo-command

This command also accepts any argument from the npm init command. For example, you can call it with --yes to answer "yes" to every question:

create-command ./foo-command --yes

To increase the log level for debugging, set the LOG_LEVEL environment variable:

LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG npm init @heusalagroup/command ./foo-command

Development

Fetching source code

To get started with development, clone the repository locally and install the git submodules:

git clone git@github.com:heusalagroup/create-command.git create-command
cd create-command
git submodule update --init --recursive

Listing state of git modules

To see the state of the git modules, run this command:

./scripts/get-all-branches.sh

If you see states like this, run the set-branch-main.sh script:

$ ./scripts/get-all-branches.sh 
main    .
(HEAD detached at 34566e9)      src/fi/hg/core
(HEAD detached at 898988b)      src/fi/hg/create

When everything is correct, you should see this:

$ ./scripts/get-all-branches.sh 
main    .
main    src/fi/hg/core
main    src/fi/hg/create

Unless you want to use a different branch, of course.

Changing all git modules to the `main` branch

To switch all git modules to main, run this script:

./scripts/set-branch-main.sh

Updating git modules to the latest version

To update all git modules to the latest version, run this script:

./scripts/pull-all.sh

Building the project

This script will build a standalone version of the project and output it to ./dist/create-command.js. It will be zero dep after that, meaning that only Node.js is required to run it, along with ./create.config.json and the files in ./templates.

npm run build

Testing locally

You can install your own locally changed version globally:

npm install -g .

Then use it to kickstart a command line project:

create-command ./foo-command

Development with GitHub Using SSH

To use SSH when working with submodules in this repository, you will need to configure your Git settings as follows:

git config --global url."git@github.com:heusalagroup/".insteadOf "https://github.com/heusalagroup/"

This configuration is necessary because the repository uses HTTPS links for read-only access. However, you may prefer to use SSH when pushing and pulling changes.