Support for extension dropping

[maraisr]

If you have a directory, with say templates/{index.js,test.js}.hbs - and run the action addMany, could that potentially support an additional property to drop of a file extension?

as in:

module.exports = function(plop) {
	plop.setGenerator('component', {
		description: 'Generate a new component',
		prompts: [
			{
				type: 'input',
				name: 'name',
				message: 'component name?',
			},
		],
		actions() {
			return [
				{
					type: 'addMany',
					destination: 'lib/components/{{ pascalCase name }}.{{ ext }}',
					base: 'templates/component/',
                                        ext: 'without-hbs', // or 'as-is', or ext(incomingFile:string): string
					templateFiles: 'templates/component/**/*',
				},
			];
		},
	});
};

[maraisr]

I'm working an PR for this feature, I'll try and KISS it, but happy for you to guide me on an implementation spec. 💯

[amwmedia]

hmm, is there a reason you wouldn't want to just remove the .hbs from the template files? They will still be processed as templates, even without the hbs extension.

[maraisr]

I get where you're coming from. 2 things really, with a .hbs extension, my IDE would make it look better, and secondly, auto format on save breaks these files horribly. Nothing I can't solve locally, but still, at the end of the day, its a handlebars file, that produces a js file for instance - so it's not a .js file, its a .hbs file.

[amwmedia]

Hmmm, I see what you mean. I actually think that it might make sense to just remove the .hbs extension by default when adding the file. We could then have a config option that would turn off that behavior. I would guess that 99% of the time that plop is being used to add an hbs file with the addMany action, the user doesn't intend to actually add a handlebars template file to the codebase. 🤔

[amwmedia]

If you'd like to PR this, you would likely look at making the change within the addMany action itself. You could add some logic to where the add action path is being generated so that if the result ends in .hbs, that suffix is removed.