silhouette-cli

silhouette-cli

Command line tool for silhouette

Install

$ npm install -g silhouette-cli

Usage

Run commands in your app's root directory.

$ silhouette help

Commands

silhouette create --project

Create a silhouette app in the current directory.

Examples

$ silhouette create --project

# Short option also works
$ silhouette create -p

silhouette create --all <name>

Create a controller, view, and stylesheet.

Examples

# Create a controller and stylesheet called ProductListingCtrl and a view called product-listing
$ silhouette create --all product_listing

# Short option also works
$ silhouette create -a product_listing

silhouette create --controller <name>

Create a controller.

Examples

# Create a controller called ProductListingCtrl
$ silhouette create --controller product_listing

# Short option also works
$ silhouette create -c product_listing

silhouette create --style <name>

Create a stylesheet.

Examples

# Create a stylesheet called ProductListingCtrl
$ silhouette create --style product_listing

# Short option also works
$ silhouette create -s product_listing

silhouette create --view <name>

Create a view.

Examples

# Create a view called product-listing
$ silhouette create --view product_listing

# Short option also works
$ silhouette create -v product_listing

silhouette help [<command>]

Output usage information. Passing the name of the command as a parameter will output the help information for that specific command.

Examples

$ silhouette help

$ silhouette help create

# Long and short options also works
$ silhouette --help create

$ silhouette -h create

silhouette version

Output version number.

Examples

$ silhouette version

# Long and short options also works
$ silhouette --version

$ silhouette -v

Misc

File Types

Controllers

Silhouette uses AngularJS for controllers. .js files are generated by this tool.

Stylesheets

Silhouette uses Stylus for stylesheets (compiled as .css). .styl files are generated by this tool.

Views

Silhouette uses Jade for views. .jade files are generated by this tool.

Naming

Controllers and Styles

Names of controller and style files are converted into upper camel cased words suffixed with "Ctrl".

Examples

The following will be converted to HelloWorldCtrl

• "HelloWorld"
• "hello world"
• "Hello World"
• "helloWorld"
• "hello-world"
• "hello world"

Views

Names of view files are converted into lower cased, dash-separated words.

Examples

The following will be converted to hello-world

• "HelloWorld"
• "hello world"
• "Hello World"
• "helloWorld"
• "hello-world"
• "hello world"