yeoman-environment

Yeoman Environment

Handles the lifecycle and bootstrapping of generators in a specific environment

It provides a high-level API to discover, create and run generators, as well as further tuning of where and how a generator is resolved.

Install

$ npm install yeoman-environment

Usage

Full documentation available here.

import { createEnv } from 'yeoman-environment';

// The #lookup() method will search the user computer for installed generators
// The search if done from the current working directory
await env.lookup();
await env.run('angular', { skipInstall: true });

For advance usage, see our API documentation for latest yeoman-environment.

API documentation for yeoman-environment v2.x.

License

BSD-2-Clause © Yeoman

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