aliases for subgenerators

[markusfalk]

I would like to wish for aliases for subgenerators

I have created a subgenerator and gave it a speaking name that is quite long. When using it I would like to type in much less than that.

Example

status quo:

$ yo kickstart:addcomponent <name>

could be shorter with an alias:

$ yo kickstart:ac <name>

[SBoudrias]

Right now an easy solution would be to create the ac folder, so that:

// inside ac/index.js
module.exports = require('../addcomponent');

I don't think adding aliases as a functionality is very useful and worthwhile of implementing in the core. If someone else feel otherwise we can discuss it, otherwise I'll close the issue in a couple days. (the previous suggestion will continues to work if you really need aliases)

[SBoudrias]

I'll close as this is probably not something we'll implement in the future. The workaround explained higher will work if you really want aliases.

[robdodson]

How would you copy over your templates with the above workaround?

this.copy('foo.html') is now relative to the ac directory and throws an error

[robdodson]

ah nvm, path.join(__dirname, 'foo.html') will work :)

[SBoudrias]

You could also manually set the sourceRoot() to the correct folder. See the context section of http://yeoman.io/authoring/file-system.html