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rob.luton
rob.luton

Reputation: 395

Is there an agnostic cli for quickly generating new features and projects?

I'm in the process of building some tools but find myself thinking I'm reinventing the wheel. I'm looking for a cli, preferably written in javascript, that has a config file and template engine. The config file would let you specify projects and features and have a path option that would point to the template(s) and create the files/folders at the path specified by the config, or current working directory. Ideally it would not overwrite folders or files that were pre-existing and would handle such cases gracefully.

I started building something like this using oclif for the cli framework. So the responses I get here will determine if I continue that work or save some time by using something that may be more polished. The example below is react, but I would want to use such a tool for Laravel, Vue, Vulcan, etc...

In the end it doesn't matter how it works but here is an example of a possible solution.

config.js

const commands = {
  react: {
    functionalComponent: {
      argName: 'fc',
      template: '/templates/react/fc.hbs'
    }
  }
}

// console
$ cd ./my-project/src/components
$ gen react -fc

Upvotes: 2

Views: 355

Answers (1)

rlopez
rlopez

Reputation: 655

You could try the CLI version (https://www.telosys.org/cli.html) of Telosys (https://www.telosys.org/ ) an Open Source code generator.

This code generator is language agnostic, you can generate any kind of text files.

It uses a template engine (https://www.telosys.org/templates.html ) based on Velocity (http://velocity.apache.org/engine/1.7/ ) and each template file can be fed with variables defined for each project and/or entities defined in text files.

This tool is written in Java (not in JS) but it only requires a Java Runtime on your machine (Java 7 or +), that's it.

I use it very often for project bootstrapping and to generate all the boilerplate (and boring) code.

See also :

Upvotes: 2

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