Is there a way I can use angular-generator without yeoman?

Question

Basically what I want is a scaffolding tool (without bower and other stuff that it comes with) and controller, service/factory generators.

Yeoman is great but I was wondering if there's anything minimalist cli out there for angular.

Answer 1

If you want a command line interface but not Yeoman's, you might want to have a look at the "Generation" section of this collection. As of today, it has one option that uses Lineman and two that made their own CLI, but they use bower. Anyway, if what you're looking for exists, it should be in there somewhere.

Answer 2

Well, if all you want is a base angular app structure, that is called a boilerplate. There are a few available:

• https://github.com/angular/angular-seed
• https://github.com/ngbp/ngbp
• https://github.com/angular-app/angular-app

However, you seem to also want a controller, service/factory generator. This will always require:

• some kind of task runner (like Grunt)
• or an IDE that supports templates.

Since you don't seem to like grunt (grunt IS AWESOME), these IDEs might help you...

• Eclipse supports template, you can find some here

• IntelliJ's PHPStorm or WebStorm have a feature called Live Templates which, IMHO, are far better than eclipse. You can find some premade templates here, but is easy to roll your own, as explained in this tutorial.