jatg

JATG - Just Another Template Generator

Low configuration CLI to generate files based on templates.

Setting Up

1. Create the templates.json configuration file
2. Create your template files
3. Generate the files by running jatg

Configuration

The configuration is a JSON file named templates.json. Here's an example:

{
  "templates": [
    {
      "name": "my-awesome-template",
      "sourcePaths": ["./templates"],
      "outputPath": "./src/modules",
      "variables": [
        {
          "variable": "name",
          "name": "Module Name"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "$schema": "node_modules/jatg/templates.schema.json"
}

The format of this file is documented through the TemplateConfiguration TypeScript interface and the JSON Schema. Refer them for a list of all possible properties.

Variables

A template can have multiple variables. Those can be defined in the configuration and can be used to make template contents and file names dynamic.

The syntax is the variable name surrounded by percentages (%variable_name%) and the value can be formatted through special functions, separated by dots (%variable_name.upper%).

For the variable named entity and the value user-post, here are a few examples:

Template	Result	What is hapenning?
%entity%	user-post	prints the variable value as is
%entity.upper%	USER-POST	prints the variable formatted value in uppercase
%entity.plural.upper%	USER-POSTS	prints the variable value formatted in plural and in uppercase
%entity.plural.dotCase.upper%	USER.POSTS	prints the variable value formatted in plural, in dot case and in uppercase

Variables can be used in template file contents, the template file name and the configuration outputPath.

Formatting Functions

Basic

These are based on the basic string functions included in JavaScript.

Function	Result
upper	TWOWORDS
lower	twowords

Change Case

These functions use change-case under the hood.

Function	Result
camelCase	twoWords
capitalCase	Two Words
constantCase	TWO_WORDS
dotCase	two.words
kebabCase	two-words
noCase	two words
pascalCase	TwoWords
pascalSnakeCase	Two_Words
pathCase	two/words
sentenceCase	Two words
snakeCase	two_words
trainCase	Two-Words
initials	TW

Pluralize

These functions use pluralize under the hood.

Function	Result
plural	twoWords
singular	twoWord

Running

Run the generation by simply running the command below.

jatg

You can also specify options, such as picking a specific template:

jatg --template my-awesome-template

For a list of options, run jatg --help.