Stimpak: A Pattern Management System

        !Source: ECMAScript 6

Stimpak is a system for defining, discovering, and re-using code & workflow patterns:

* Formalize code and workflow patterns with minimal effort so that they can be re-used and shared with others.
* Cut down on time doing routine tasks by generating new files based upon simple patterns.
* Update old files with new patterns using simple merging strategies.
* Develop automated expert systems that guide users through complicated tasks.

Main Features

* Built for Ease-of-Use
* Everything about stimpak was designed with ease-of-use and time-savings in mind.
* Minimal learning required. Get up and running within a few minutes.
* Automatic just-in-time transpiling for automatic backwards compatible with older versions of nodejs.
* Minimally-Opinionated Generator Design
* Very little learning required to write your own generators. Make your first pattern in less than 5 minutes.
* Setup your directory structures the way you want. Change them later if you want to.
* Name your methods how you'd like. Except for one .setup method on each generator, you're free to use any method name you'd like, or to change them later.
* Composable Generators
* Create several small generators that work independently.
* Combine generators together on-the-fly via the CLI.
* Combine generators into a new generator that can guide the user through multiple tasks at once.
* Integrated Templates
* Choose your own template engine, or use EJS by default.
* Answers to prompts are automatically used as values in templates.
* Smart File Merging
* Easily designate files that should be merged instead of overwritten.
* Use built-in or custom merging strategies for a variety of file formats.
* Merge strategies using virtual file objects to avoid touching the filesystem more than necessary.
* Customizable ASCII-Art
* Built-in ASCII-Art generator for BIG popping titles in any of 680 built-in figlet fonts.
Optionally choose not* to have ASCII-Art whenever you use your generators. It's all up to you!
* Quality-Controlled
* Well-tested with meaningful assertions.
* 100% test coverage.
* Continuous Integration
* Automated Code Quality Auditing
* Automated Dependency Management
* Automated Up-Stream Security Vulnerability Reporting

Getting Started Guides

Stimpak can be used as both a command-line interface (CLI), and as a standalone library that can be embedded into your own code. Choose the guide below to help you get started with either integration method, or with writing a new stimpak generator from scratch:

1. Stimpak Command-Line Interface
2. Stimpak API
3. Stimpak Generator Development

How to Contribute

We love pull requests and issue reports! Really!

If you find a bug or have a feature suggestion, please feel free to submit an issue here.

For more information on how to submit a pull request, please read this guide on contributing to open-source projects.