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cici-cli

A light tool to generate projects in an easy way.

Installation

npm install cici-cli -g

Usage

Open your terminal and type cici or cici -h , you'll see the help infomation below:

  Usage: cici <command>


  Commands:

    add|a      Add a new template
    list|l     List all the templates
    init|i     Generate a new project
    delete|d   Delete a template

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

Note that if you are using MacOS, sudo was required while using commands add and delete.

Commands

add | a

This command would help you to add a new template to the templates.json, which will be used by cici to generate projects.

$ cici add

? Set the custom name of the template: my-first-template
? Owner/name of the template: jrainlau/cici
? Branch of the template: new
┌───────────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────┐
│ Template Name         │ Owner/Name       │ Branch │
├───────────────────────┼──────────────────┼────────┤
│ my-first-template     │  jrainlau/cici   │ new    │
└───────────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────┘
✔ New template has been added successfully!

cici use git clone to down load git repos. After answering 3 questions, you'll add a new template to cici.

list | l

It shows you the templates list.

$ cici list

┌───────────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────┐
│ Template Name         │ Owner/Name       │ Branch │
├───────────────────────┼──────────────────┼────────┤
│ my-first-template     │  jrainlau/cici   │ new    │
├───────────────────────┼──────────────────┼────────┤
│ my-second-template    │ jrainlau/motto   │ master │
└───────────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────┘

init | i

After adding new templates, you could use this command to generate your own project by choosing template.

$ cici init

? Template name: my-first-template

? Project name: my-project

? Where to init the project? ../

⠹ Downloading template...

New project has been initialized successfully!

It's easy, right?

delete | d

To delete a template, you could use this command:

$ cici delete

? Which template you want to delete?

my-second-template
┌───────────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────┐
│ Template Name         │ Owner/Name       │ Branch │
├───────────────────────┼──────────────────┼────────┤
│ my-second-template    │ jrainlau/motto   │ master │
└───────────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────┘

✔ Template has been deleted successfully

Template

The most important part of cici is template. All templates' infomation were list in the templates.json. A template means a project sample, which has a simple or complex file structure.

You can create your own templates repository, and push your templates in different branches. All you need to do then is to add the templates into cici's templates.json.