Arc-gen-beta NPM

Arc-gen-beta

This is an experimental project to create a scaffolding tool for Architect apps. We welcome you to try it, find bugs, and report them to the issue tracker.

This cli tool was created to save users time in creating basic app templates from the command line. Currently there are three example apps that you can create: auth, mvc, and static.

We plan to extend this with feedback from the community and welcome all your input.

Installation

Use npm to install arc-gen-beta

npm i -g arc-gen-beta

Usage

arc-gen-beta mvc
arc-gen-beta auth
arc-gen-beta static

mvc will create a template blog that allows users to perform CRUDL operations on blog posts.

auth will create a template app with an email login and registration system.

static will create a template app of a single index.html file that represents a static site.

You can specify a destination directory to install the generated files to with a flag -d or --dest Example:

arc-gen-beta mvc -d mydir

Once the project is generated, it can be inspected and then users will have to run npm install and npm start or arc sandbox to start the project locally.

Project structure

src contains individual generators that are called by the wrapping command line utility

Test approach

Running a generator test will execute a generator that will output temporary test output into a local to the project tmp directory that will be cleaned up after each test run.