bloop

A JavaScript project bootstrapper. The successor to this gist.

When I start a new project, I:

1. Find a project that the new project is most similiar to.
2. cp -r that project.
3. Delete .git and node_modules.
4. Run sed to find and replace instances of the old project name with the new project name.
5. git init in the new project.

This is an automated version of that. I find copying old projects much more practical than trying to anticipate what I'll need in the future with templates.

Assumptions

It works on several assumptions:

• It's running in a directory that contains the base project, and that the new project should be under that same directory. e.g. It's in ~/code/ and ~/code/oldproject exists, and you want ~/code/newproject to be created.
• The name of the base project is the same as that of the directory. e.g. oldproject is in the directory oldproject, there are oldproject strings within the code.
• It's a JS project, or at least one with a node_modules directory and a package-lock.json.
• You don't want the source history from the base project.

Usage

Copy bloop.sh to the directory that houses your projects and make it executable. If you're on OS X, look for the line in the script that says it should be uncommented (and comment out the line it says should be commented out). If you're on Linux, it should just work. I have not tried this on Cygwin.

Then, just run ./bloop.sh and answer the prompts.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019 Jim Kang

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