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initialize
Advanced tools
Create a new repo with sane defaults. Provides all the tools needed to create a unix style module.
$ npm install -g initialize
initialize - generate a fresh package
Usage: initialize [options]
Options:
-h, --help Output usage information
-v, --version Output version number
-u, --user Override user with organization
-d, --directory Specify output directory
Examples:
$ initialize # generate package in `./`
$ initialize -d ./dir # generate package in `./dir`
$ initialize -u npm # generate package for `npm`
Docs: https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/initialize
Bugs: https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/initialize/issues
Requires npm to be configured:
# required
npm config set init.author.name "Your Name"
npm config set init.author.email "me@example.com"
npm config set init.author.github "your-github-handle"
# optional, defaults to your github
npm config set init.author.url "http://your-site.com/"
The following variables are used in the templates:
name Name of the package
varName Name of package usable as JS var
description Description of the package
tags Package tags
user Logged in user (github)
realName User's real name
date.year Current year
date.month Current month
date.day Current day
date.date Current date
FAQs
Generate a fresh package
The npm package initialize receives a total of 176 weekly downloads. As such, initialize popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that initialize demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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