madoos-yo-helper

Allows abstract writing of templates for yeoman generators.

Features

• Add the directory tree that is inside templates
• Gets the prompt vars and passes them as arguments to the templates

Considerations

• Transforms all files with _ in their name to ., for example _gitignore to .gitignore

Functions

• .prompts
• .fileWriter

Getting Started

To install:

npm i --save madoos-yo-helper

In the generator index:

const yeoman = require('yeoman-generator');
 
const generatorName = 'some-generator-name';
const questions = [{type: 'input', name: 'name',message: 'Your project name',default: null}];    
const templatePath = require('path').join(__dirname, './templates');
 
// require module
const yoHelper = require('madoos-yo-helper')(generatorName, questions, templatePath);
 
module.exports = yeoman.Base.extend({
  prompting: yoHelper.prompts,
  writing: yoHelper.fileWriter, 
  install: function () {
    this.installDependencies();
  }
});

If you want to use the yeoman context to get props:

const yeoman = require('yeoman-generator');
 
const generatorName = 'some-generator-name';
// Now questions is a function that allows to obtain the context of yeoman
const questions = function(){
    const moduleName = {type: 'input', name: 'name',message: 'Your project name',default: this.appname}
    return [moduleName];
};
const templatePath = require('path').join(__dirname, './templates');
 
// require module
const yoHelper = require('madoos-yo-helper')(generatorName, questions, templatePath);
 
 
module.exports = yeoman.Base.extend({
  prompting: yoHelper.prompts,
  writing: yoHelper.fileWriter, 
  install: function () {
    this.installDependencies();
  }
});