Generate project dotfiles quickly and easily.
npm install dotty-cliA small utility for quickly creating dotfiles in a project.
Currently supports creating:
- .gitignore
- .travis.yml
- .editorconfig
- .jshintrc
``sh`
npm install --global dotty-cli
Dotty works by looking for templates for each file type you want to create. The default location is ~/.dotty. In there it expects to find a folder for each filetype, with a number of templates inside. For example:
`
~/.dotty/
.gitignore/
default
node
.travis.yml/
node
ruby
If you ask Dotty to generate a file but do not tell it which template to use, it will use "default". To create a .gitignore file for example, you would do:
`sh`
dotty --gi
Which would create a .gitignore file in your current working directory, copying the file contents of ~/.dotty/.gitignore/default into it. If you wanted to use a different template, you could do:
`sh`
dotty --gi node
Which would use the contents of ~/.dotty/.gitignore/node.
Of course, you can generate more than one file at once:
`sh`
dotty --ec --tv node
That would generate:
- .editorconfig, using the default template.travis.yml
- , using the node template
- .gitignore : --gi
- : --jh
- : --tv
- : --ec`