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Small, fast and streaming project scaffolder with support for hundreds of template engines and sane defaults

Please consider following this project's author, Charlike Mike Reagent, and :star: the project to show your :heart: and support.

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Install
CLI
API
- src/index.js
  - charlike
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Contributing
License

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Install

This project requires Node.js ^8.10.0 || >=10.13.0 (see Support & Release Policy). Install it using yarn or npm.
We highly recommend to use Yarn when you think to contribute to this project.

$ yarn add charlike
# or globally
$ yarn global add charlike

CLI

Install it globally or locally and run charlike --help.

  Usage: charlike [name] [description] [flags]

  Common Flags:
    -h, --help                Display this help.
    -v, --version             Display current version.

  Flags:
    -n, --name                Project's name.
    -d, --desc                Project description, short for "--project.description".
    -o, --owner               Usually your GitHub username or organization.
    -t, --templates           Source templates directory.
    --engine                  Engine to be used in the template files.
    --locals                  Locals for the template files. Support dot notation.
    --locals.author.name      Project's author name.
    --locals.author.email     Project's author email. And so on.
    --project                 Project metadata like name, description
    --project.name            Project name.
    --project.description     Project description.
    --cwd                     Folder to be used as current working dir.
    --ly                      Shortcut for --locals.license.year (license start year).
    --ln                      Set --locals.license.name.

  Examples:
    charlike my-new-project --ly 2018 --ln MIT -o myOrg
    charlike --project.name foobar --locals.author 'John Snow'
    charlike foobar --locals.author.name 'John Snow'
    charlike foobar --locals.license 'Apache-2.0' --locals.foo bar
    charlike foobar 'This is description'
    charlike foobar --project.description 'Some description here'
    charlike foobar --desc 'Some description here'
    charlike foobar 'Awesome description' --owner tunnckoCoreLabs
    charlike --project.name qux --desc 'Yeah descr' --owner tunnckoCore

API

Generated using docks.

src/index.js

charlike

Generates a complete project using a set of templates.

You can define what "templates" files to be used by passing settings.templates, by default it uses ./templates folder from this repository root.

You can define project metadata in settings.project object, which should contain name, description properties and also can contain repo and dest. By default the destination folder is dynamically built from settings.cwd and settings.project.name, but this behavior can be changed. If settings.project.repo is passed, then it will be used instead of the settings.project.name.

To control the context of the templates, pass settings.locals. The default set of locals includes version string and project, author and license objects.

Params

settings {object} the only required is project which should be an object
settings.cwd {object} working directory to create project to, defaults to process.cwd()
settings.project {object} should contain name, description, repo and dest
settings.locals {object} to pass more context to template files
settings.engine {string} for different template engine to be used in template files, default is lodash

Returns

Promise<object> if successful, will resolve to object like { locals, project, dest, options }

Examples

import charlike from 'charlike';

const settings = {
  project: { name: 'foobar', description: 'Awesome project' },
  cwd: '/home/charlike/code',
  templates: '/home/charlike/config/.jsproject',
  locals: {
    foo: 'bar',
    // some helper
    toUpperCase: (val) => val.toUpperCase(),
  },
};

// the `dest` will be `/home/charlike/code/foobar`
charlike(settings)
  .then(({ dest }) => console.log(`Project generated to ${dest}`))
  .catch((err) => console.error(`Error occures: ${err.message}; Sorry!`));

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Contributing

Guides and Community

Please read the Contributing Guide and Code of Conduct documents for advices.

For bug reports and feature requests, please join our [Spectrum community][spectrum-community-url] forum and open a thread there with prefixing the title of the thread with the name of the project if there's no separate channel for it.

Consider reading the Support and Release Policy guide if you are interested in what are the supported Node.js versions and how we proceed. In short, we support latest two even-numbered Node.js release lines.

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