Code generator similiar to yo that resides in your app's code base.
npm install in-app-generatorWrite Code Generators in ES6 that live in your app's code base.
Developing code generators should be as easy as app development.
* Generator's code lives in app's repository
* Generator's code is ES6
npm install in-app-generator -g
inapp postinstall
inapp g generator MyGenerator
inapp g MyGenerator
Great blog posts are like oxygen for the developer. Thanks javascript playground for the nice write up on node command line tools.
Javascript Playground Bog Post - Writing a node command line tool.
in-app-gen uses the conflicter (and deps) from Yeoman generator to detect when generated files would overwrite (and change) existing app code. It provides nice prompting and diff-ing to help out.
Yeoman Generator - BSD license Copyright (c) Google
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