@lambdalabs/labs

Labs wrapper for Yeoman

This wrapper of yeoman simply allows the use of labs in place of the common use of yo

Installation

The project has not yet been deployed to <npmjs.com> yet.

npm i -g @lambdalabs/labs

This will install the main cli wrapper along with all Labs generators as dependancies.

Usage

The labs cli command is just a wrapper to the yeoman yo command.

Examples

• Run the SPA generator (base react single page app starter)

  labs @lambdalabs/spa project-name

• Run the Node API generator (base node express api starter)

  labs @lambdalabs/api project-name

Generators

• SPA React
• Node API

publish npmjs package

• update package.json version
• add a git tag with the version number git tag v0.9.30 -m "release note"
• push repo and tags git push && git push --tags

Development setup

To develop locally it will be easiest to link the labs command and any generators being developed using npm.

1. link the generator in the labs-yo project folder.

   1. Go to the cloned and npm-installed project folder
   2. npm link
   3. Cd back to this labs-yo folder
   4. npm link "name-of-package"
   5. Example: npm link "generator-spa

2. link this project to the global npm commands.

   npm link

   The labs command is now globally available.

   labs --help should render the yo command options.