fabiospampinato/template

A super-simple way to create new projects based on templates.

Inspired by Khaos, but with a better CLI, schemas and a more up-to-date code.

Install

npm install -g @fabiospampinato/template

Documentation

• Template: What's a template and how to make one.
• Schema: What's a schema and how to use it to improve your templates.
• CLI: List of provided commands and how to use them.

Usage

First of all you've got to install a template, for example let's install fabiospampinato/template-typescript-package as the typescript-package template:

template install fabiospampinato/template-typescript-package typescript-package

Now you should have that downloaded locally under your ~/.template directory. You may also put templates there manually, if you don't feel like creating a public repository for them.

It's time to use the newly installed template to create a new project called my-package:

template create typescript-package my-package

Now it will ask you to provide values for the placeholders found inside the template:

name: my-package
description: This is a description
version: 1.0.0
author: Fabio Spampinato
owner: fabiospampinato
email: [email protected]
scoped: No

And that's it, inside the my-package directory you'll have everything you need to get you started.

How it works

This program simply takes a folder containing some files as input, parses those files using handlebars, and then just outputs them to your desired folder. The file structure inside the template is left untouched.

Read more about templates here.

License

MIT © Fabio Spampinato