create-whatever

create-whatever

The smartest create- app template generator.

Why?

• Built-in License chooser No need to care about license things.
• Template engine Just put files with template strings and we will do the rest.
• Highly customizable Can change caveat text, and add extra cli options.

Usage

1. npx create-whatever create-greet --template typescript
2. cd create-greet
3. edit files inside templates/default
4. yarn build or npm run build
5. yarn publish or npm publish
6. profit!

Template

Edit files inside templates/default. Text files will be passed through Mustache template engine that all template strings is replaced with respective value.

• {{name}} package name
• {{description}} package description
• {{author}} author name
• {{email}} author email
• {{author_full}} author name formatted with {{name}} <{{email}}> if email given, otherwise {{name}}
• {{license}} package license (e.g. MIT)
• {{year}} current year (e.g. 2020)

Config

You can find the app config in src/cli.ts.

import {create} from 'create-whatever';

create('create-greet', templateRoot, {
  caveat: `Your app has been created successfuly!`,
});

templateRoot set to path.resolve(__dirname, '../templates'). You can change it to whereever you want.

caveat

string | undefined

This message will be shown after the generation process.

Contribution

PRs are always welcome!