@qrohlf/bones

Bones is a small scaffolding utility for code projects. It runs in node, but can be useful in any kind of project where you find yourself creating the same set of boilerplate files over and over.

Getting Started

1. Install bones:

npm install -g @qrohlf/bones

2. Create the .bones folder with an example component template:

cd ~/myproject
bones init

3. Try it out:

bones component MyComponent
$EDITOR ./MyComponent

4. Add your own 'bones':

mkdir .bones/mytemplate
vim .bones/mytemplate/__name__.js

Usage

Bones operates on templates that you define in the .bones directory of your project. These templates can be as simple as a single file, or as complex as as set of nested directories.

bones templatename destination [arg1=value arg2=value...]

In filenames, directory names, and template file contents, anything surrounded by double underscores (i.e. __name__) will be replaced with the value you provided on the command line.

The __name__ parameter is populated by default with the basename of the destination argument. You can override this by passing name=YOURNAME as part of the argument list.

There are also a number of string helpers you can use for transforming variables. The syntax for doing this is __argName|transformName__ (so, for example __name|snakeCase__ would be useful if you wanted to take a react ComponentName and transform it to a class_name for use in your CSS). The currently available helpers are:

helper	output
camelCase	fooBar
pascalCase	FooBar
snakeCase	foo_bar
kebabCase	foo-bar
upperCase	FOOBAR
upperSnakeCase	FOO_BAR
lowerCase	foobar

Bones uses an allow list of file extensions to determine which files to run through the template engine and which files to copy verbatim. See the default config for a list of file extensions that are interpreted as templates.

Examples

You can see some template examples in the .bones directory of this repo.

Customization

You can set per-project configuration values in .bones/bones.config.js which will override the defaults. See the default config for all of the possible options.

License

Bones is MIT-licensed