Custom File Generator Tutorial

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  • Inquirer.js

    A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

  • If you boil plop down to its core, it is basically glue code between inquirer prompts and handlebar templates.

  • plop

    Consistency Made Simple

  • My tool of choice is Plop.js. Plop is a powerful "micro-generator framework" built to help maintain patterns as well as speed up your project build time. From the documenation:

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • handlebars.js

    Discontinued [Moved to: https://github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js] (by wycats)

  • If you boil plop down to its core, it is basically glue code between inquirer prompts and handlebar templates.

  • jarvis

    Example CLI for custom file generation (by sethdavis512)

  • If you'd like to see example repo, feel free to copy/clone this example.

  • node

    Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

  • You must have node & npm installed. For more information, visit https://nodejs.org/

  • sethbot

    A personal CLI to handle repetitious tasks

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  • handlebars.js

    Minimal templating on steroids.

  • Here's our first usage of the handlebars (docs) template. The .hbs extension will be removed once we run the action. Inside index.ts.hbs, add:

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