md-generator

md-generator

CLI tool which bootstraps Development by creating "ALL" required .md files to meet "community standards".

Table of Contents

• Project Overview
• Features
• Installation
• Supported Files
• Usage
• Demo
• Known Issues
• Contributing
• Contributors
• License

Project Overview

md-generator was created to reduce the time spent creating .md files while trying to set up projects. Hence, bootstrapping development with ALL desired md files in line with proven community standards.

Features

• [x] provides interactive file creation
• [x] provides default templates in all created files (which could be further customized)
• [x] checks if the minimum community standard is met and recommends the minimum required .md files
• [x] provides bulk removal of specified .md files
• [x] provides bulk creation of .md files
• [x] optional --empty argument to make created files empty if preferred so
• [x] optional --required to create/check/list only all files needed to meet the minimum community standard

Installation

npm install md-generator or globally using npm install -g md-generator

• you can interact with the package from the npm registry using npx md-generator [command] [options]

Supported Files

Required

• README.md
• LICENSE
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• bug_report.md
• feature_request.md

Optional

• CHANGELOG.md
• SUPPORT.md
• CONTRIBUTORS.md
• AUTHORS.md
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md
• CODEOWNERS.md

Usage

install globally using

• npm : npm i -g md-generator
• yarn : yarn add -g md-generator

Trigger md-generator using

• md-generator [parent-options]
• md-generator [commands] [command-options] [file names]

Parent Options:

Option	Function
-V, --version	Output the version number
-h, --help	Output usage information

Commands:

Command	Function
list [options] [File Names]	List All Required/optional .md files
create [options] [File Names]	Create All/specific files
check [options] [File Names]	Checks codebase for the availability of All/Specific .md files
remove [options] [File Names]	Remove All/specific .md files

Command-Options :

Command Option	Function
-A, --all	Operate on all required/optional .md files
-F, --file	Operate on specific .md files
-E, --empty	make added files empty
-R --required	Operate on required files
-O --optional	Operate on optional files

Note:

• File Names can be with/without the file extension
• multiples File Names should be separated with spaces ie --file "README.md CONTRIBUTING.md".

Demo

Cli Command	Function
md-generator --help	displays help (all available command and option)
md-generator list	lists all supported .md files
md-generator list --optional	lists all supported optional .md files
md-generator list --required	lists all required .md files to meet community standard
md-generator check	checks code base for existing/missing supported .md files
md-generator check --required	checks code base for existing/missing required .md files
md-generator check --optional	checks code base for existing/missing optional .md files
md-generator create	Interactively Generates all desired files
md-generator create --file "file1.md file2.md ..."	Creates the supplied files
md-generator create --file "file1 file2 ..." --empty	creates supplied files with no template
md-generator create --required	Interactively create required .md files
md-generator create --optional	Interactively create optional .md files
md-generator remove	Interactively deletes all desired .md files
md-generator remove --file "file1 file2 ..."	Interactively deletes all specified .md files

Known issues

No known issues at the moment. However, issues can be raised when such is noticed

Contributing

Feel free to contribute and kindly go through the Pull Request guide, and contributing.md file

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Adépòjù Olúwáségun 💻 📖 🚧 ⚠️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

License

• MIT license
• With ❤️ from Olúwáségun.

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