Genial
While other generator/templating/scaffolding tools like yeoman and
plop are really good at what they do, I felt
they somehow still get in the way of the programmer and could be made much
simpler.
I really liked how plop colocates the templates with the project, making
them much more maintainable (each project manages its own templates). What I
don't like, however, is that I need to go trough a menu int the terminal every
time I want to invoke a generator, answering the questions one by one. I prefer
giving the generator all it needs to go to work immediatly. So instead of:
$ plop foo
[FOO] What is the foo's name? Bar
[FOO] More baz or not? Y
[FOO] Imports? fleep
[FOO] Imports? floop
[FOO] Imports? flap
[FOO] Imports?
...
I like to write:
$ genial foo --name Bar --baz --import fleep --import floop --import flap
With genial
you can define all the templates parameters and how they should
be invoked, genial
takes care of the rest. Everything that is specified on
the command line will not be asked, everything that isn't will be asked just
like with plop. All a template writer needs to do is specify the
names and types of the parameters and possibly add a description.
Usage
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