mkrt

MKRT

Create SvelteKit routes, fast

See the routing docs and migration guide. Backstory is on the repo discussion

Features

• configuration file
• runtime options
• typescript support
• JSDoc support
• default & custom template routing files

Installation

npm install -g mrkt, pnpm add -g mkrt or yarn global add mkrt

Configuration File

An optional mkrt.config.json config file can be created, to set your project's defaults. Place this file in the root of your project folder. Defaults can be overridden with CLI Options

"codekit": "[ true | false ]" adds commonly-used code to your files, whether it's from mkrt's default templates or your own. Default is true.

"route": [ page | server ]" type of route to create. Default is page.

"templates": "<path>" absolute or relative path to your custom codekit template files. This option requires "codekit": "true" - which is the default, so there's no need to explicitly configure codekit to be true.

Why 'codekit'?

'boilerplate' is a more understood term, but seems to give-off a negative vibe for devs these days; so I thought I'd come up with something else.

A codekit's goal is to provide code which most people are going to need, most of the time.

Usage

When using mkrt, you'll want to be in your project's root directory.

mkrt <path> [options]

Directories will be created, if they don't exist. If any of the to-be-created route files already exist in the directory, then you'll be prompted whether you want to overwrite them or not.

Use . to create a route in your project's root route directory ('src/routes' by default in SvelteKit)

Depending on which type of route you create, these files are created by default.

• page routes => +page.svelte
• layout routes => +layout.svelte
• server routes => +server.ts

If you choose to use mkrt for creating (group) directories, you'll need to escape the parenthesis. mkrt \(app\) -l

CLI Options

Standalone

• -n, --named-layout <name> Create a page route or layout, that references another layout in the heirarchy. This can be used for regular layouts or (group) layouts. Use . to reference the root layout.
• --load Create a +[page|layout].[ts|js] file with the route.
• --sload Create a +[page|layout].server.[ts|js] file with the route.
• --all Convenience method for using --load and --sload at the same time.

Options --load, --sload, --all have no effect if a server route is being created.

For more information about using -n to reference layouts, checkout Advanced Layouts in the docs.

Overrides for defaults and config file

• -p, --page route is a +page.svelte file
• -s, --server route is a +server.ts file
• -l, --layout Create a +layout.svelte file, either for a route or a (group) layout

Examples

All examples assume the default configuration.

mkrt . - creates +page.svelte in your project's routes root (src/routes by default in SvelteKit).

mkrt about - creates about/+page.svelte

mkrt about --load - creates about/+page.svelte and about/+page.ts

mkrt about -l --sload - creates about/+layout.svelte and about/+layout.server.ts

mkrt api/auth -s - creates api/auth/+server.ts

mkrt \(app\) -l - creates (app)/+layout.svelte

mkrt company -n \(app\) - creates company/+page@(app).svelte

mkrt company -n . - creates company/+page@.svelte

Custom Codekit Templates

If you like the idea of having some pre-populated code in your route files, but don't like mkrt's defaults, then you can use your own files for this. Create a folder anywhere on your computer, then configure templates in the mkrt.config.json file with the path to the folder. You can use absolute or relative paths.

Here are the available filenames that mkrt will recognize:

+page.js
+page.ts
+server.js
+server.ts
+layout.js
+layout.ts
+page.server.js
+page.server.ts
+layout.server.js
+layout.server.ts
+page.svelte.js
+page.svelte.ts
+layout.svelte.js
+layout.svelte.ts

Note that the +page.svelte and +layout.svelte files have js or ts file extensions. This is because mkrt needs to be able to tell the difference of which file to use, depending on if you're using Typescript. When these svelte files get copied to your route folder, the .js or .ts will be removed.