yeoman-easily

This library was created to facilitate the following tasks when creating a generator with Yeoman:

• Confirmation:
  • Can ask for confirmation before proceeding in one line. easily.confirmBeforeStart(message)
  • easily.checkForConfirmation() simply returns the result.
• Prompting:
  • Handle storing user's input from the prompts into this.props. Just call easily.prompt(prompts) instead of the this.prompt(prompts, ...)
  • Can automatically skip prompts if an option with the same name is present. It will instead copy the value of existing this.option[field] into this.props[field].
  • Can register common prompts via easily.learnPrompts(prompts) and allow looking up prompts by name while calling easily.prompt(). This can save a lot of time if you create multiple generators that ask similar questions.
• Composing: with another generator, either local or external
  • Simplify the syntax to easily.composeWithLocal(name, namespace, options) and easily.composeWithExternal(package, namespace, options)
• File handling:
  • Provide functions for mass copying both static and dynamic files based on glob pattern. See easily.copyFiles(...)
  • Provide I/O functions that wraps this.fs.xxx and also resolve template and destination directory.
• Method chaining: yeoman-easily was created with chaining in mind and support method chaining for fluent coding.

Installation

$ npm install --save yeoman-easily

Example Usage

'use strict';
 
var ye = require('yeoman-easily');
var Easily = ye.Easily;
var commonPrompts = ye.prompts;
var chalk = require('chalk');
 
module.exports = Easily.createGenerator({
  prompting: function () {
    return this.easily
      .greet('Welcome to the awesome generator!')
      .confirmBeforeStart('Would you like to use bower?')
      .learnPrompts(commonPrompts)
      .prompt([
        'name',
        'description',
        'authorName',
        'authorEmail',
        'authorUrl',
        'githubAccount'
      ], true);
  },
 
  writing: function () {
    if (this.easily.checkForConfirmation()) {
      this.easily
        .extendJSONWithTemplate(
          '__package.json',
          'package.json',
          this.props
        )
        .extendJSONWithTemplate(
          '__bower.json',
          'bower.json',
          this.props
        )
        .copyFiles('**/*', {
         ignore: '**/__*',
          dynamicFiles: [
            'src/index.html',
            'README.md'
          ],
          props: props
        })
        .composeWithExternal(
          'generator-summon/generators/github',
          'summon:github',
          {
            skipGreeting: true,
            name: this.props.name,
            githubAccount: this.props.githubAccount
          }
        );
    }
  },
 
  install: function () {
    this.installDependencies();
  }
});
 

More resources

• See full API documentation
• An example generator that uses yeoman-easily heavily is generator-summon
• For convenience, you can use generator-easily instead of the standard generator-generator to create a new generator or subgenerator. The created generator/subgenerator will include code for using yeoman-easily by default.

License

Apache-2.0 © Krist Wongsuphasawat