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node.jsyeomanyeoman-generator
Alexander Zeitler
Alexander Zeitler

Reputation: 13089

local yeoman generator not found by yo

I created a new yeoman generator

'use strict';

var generators = require('yeoman-generator');

module.exports = generators.Base.extend({
  method1: function() {
    this.log('Hello, World!');
  }
});

My package.json

{
  "name": "generator-mygenerator",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "Alexander Zeitler",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "yeoman-generator": "^0.22.5"
  }
}

Then I ran npm link

When calling yo mygenerator I get this error:

Error mygenerator 

You don't seem to have a generator with the name mygenerator installed.
You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name].
To see the 1 registered generators run yo with the `--help` option.

I also tried npm link generator-mygenerator.

Node.js version 4.2.3 and npm version 3.7.5. I installed Node.js using nvm

yo doctor results in this:

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ Node.js version
✔ No .bowerrc file in home directory
✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root

Everything looks all right!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1498

Answers (1)

Alexander Zeitler
Alexander Zeitler

Reputation: 13089

The index.js has to be inside the app folder. It was in the project root folder instead.

Upvotes: 1

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