minigenerator

Install

With yarn:

yarn add minigenerator

With npm:

npm install minigenerator --save

Usage

minigenerator basically does 3 things:

• Read template files you included
• Apply rules you defined
• Write output files to the directory you chose

consider the following folder:

generate.js
template/
  - .gitignore
  - main.js
  - README.md

README.md

# hello world

generate.js

const { Generator } = require('minigenerator')

const generator = new Generator({
  source: 'template',
  rules: {
    'main.js': ({ path, content }) => ({ path: 'index.js', content }),
    'README.md': ({ path, content }) => ({ path, content: content.replace('hello', 'hey') })
  }
})

;(async () => {
  await generator.generate('dist')
  console.log('generated')
})()

After running node generate.js a dist directory is created:

dist/
  - .gitignore # just copied
  - index.js # copied and renamed from main.js
  - README.md # copied with new content: '# hey world'

Here the generator just read all the files included in the template directory, and applied rules to matching main.js and README.md files. Then it wrote output files in the dist directory.

See options for more informations about generator parameters.