Create JS package

Create a JS package with es6, testing, linting, and publication tools included. Generated projects include the following features:

• Unit testing with Jest, chai and sinon.
• Test watcher for continous testing.
• Test coverage checking.
• ES6 linting based on eslint and prettier.
• Release scripts and automatic changelog generation based on commit messages, following conventions defined in generate-changelog.

Requirements

• Node version >= 6

Installation

Install the tool globally:

npm install -g create-js-package

Creation of a new package

Navigate to the directory where you want to scaffold the project and run the command:

mkdir my-package
cd my-package/
create-js-package my-package

Available commands

The generated project will have the following commands available:

Start the app:

npm start

Start the app in watch (dev) mode:

npm run start:watch

Run tests and calculate coverage:

npm test

Run tests in watch (dev) mode. This allows continuous testing while developing:

npm run test:watch

Run linter (coding standard):

npm run lint

Fix linting errors:

npm run lint:fix