projgen v0.0.2

• Projgen

  Projgen generates projects from templates

** Whats a template look like Just a set of files and a yaml config file. #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE config.yml src/package.json src/README.md src/lib/index.js src/test/index.js #+END_EXAMPLE

** Whats the config file for Well, its for configuring a few things like:

• setting variables within template files
• setting up prompts which set variables within template files

• running some commands after the generator finishes

  it looks something like: #+begin_src yaml metadata : author : 'Mike McFarland' # automatically set author for templates prompts : - 'name' # prompt user for a name and set it to the value provided - key : 'license' # ask about license (but have default be ISC) default : 'ISC' - 'description' cmds : - 'git init' - 'npm install --save-dev mocha' # install the latest mocha #+end_src

** Variables? Yes, the files in your template directory can have parameters, like so: #+begin_src javascript { "name": "{{name}}", "description": "{{description}}", "repository": "git://github.com/{{repository}}.git", "version": "0.0.0", "license": "{{license}}", "main": "lib/index.js" } #+end_src

Files are run through [http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/].

** Installation

Its an npm module, and can be installed with #+begin_example npm install -g projgen #+end_example

then you need to configure a templates directory, you can do this with #+begin_example projgen -t ~/absolute/path/to/templates #+end_example

I have my templates directory in version control [https://github.com/mikedmcfarland/project-templates].

** License ISC