Yeoman Generator for Yeoman Generators

Maintainer: Pascal Hartig

generator-generator scaffolds out a new basic Yeoman generator with some sensible defaults.

Commands

• yo generator shows a wizard for generating a new generator
• yo generator:subgenerator NAME generates a subgenerator with the name NAME

What do you get?

generator-generator scaffolds out a complete project directory structure for you.

.
├── app
│   ├── index.js
│   └── templates
│       ├── editorconfig
│       └── jshintrc
├── .editorconfig
├── .gitattributes
├── .gitignore
├── .jshintrc
├── LICENSE
├── package.json
├── README.md
└── test
    ├── test-creation.js
    └── test-load.js

Getting started

• Make sure you have yo installed: npm install -g yo
• Install the generator: npm install -g generator-generator
• Run: yo generator

Changelog

• 0.2.2

  • Updated dependencies.

• 0.2.1

  • The name specified in the prompt is now used in package.json.
  • generator-generator officially replaced the built-in generator that was bundled with yo.

• 0.2

  • Added subgenerator for subgenerators
  • Generated generator now generates package.json, component.json and installs them by default.

• 0.1.1

  • Upgraded mocha to 1.9.0
  • Include .travis.yml

Contributing

See the contribution docs.

When submitting an issue, please follow the guidelines. Especially important is to make sure Yeoman is up-to-date, and providing the command or commands that cause the issue.

License

MIT License