yeoman-environment
Advanced tools
Handles the lifecyle and bootstrapping of generators in a specific 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.
$ npm install yeoman-environment
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.
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The yeoman-generator package provides the base class for creating Yeoman generators. While yeoman-environment focuses on managing the environment and lifecycle of generators, yeoman-generator is used to define the generators themselves.
Plop is a micro-generator framework that allows you to create and run generators. It is similar to yeoman-environment in that it helps manage the lifecycle of generators, but it is generally considered to be simpler and more lightweight.
Hygen is a code generator tool that focuses on being fast and easy to use. It provides a different approach to code generation compared to yeoman-environment, with a focus on simplicity and speed.
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Handles the lifecyle and bootstrapping of generators in a specific environment
The npm package yeoman-environment receives a total of 645,139 weekly downloads. As such, yeoman-environment popularity was classified as popular.
We found that yeoman-environment demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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