should scoped generators show up in my generator list?

[travi]

I've been struggling with something that I kind of expected to just work.

I've started to put together a couple of very foundational generators that I want to extend with more specialized ones, the first of which is here. My intent is to scope these to my namespace so they don't collide with others.

When I try to make it available to yo by using npm link, it does not show up in the list of generators. Also, when I try to run it directly as yo @travi/git, I get the following message:

Error @travi/git 

You don’t seem to have a generator with the name “@travi/git” installed.
But help is on the way:

You can see available generators via npm search yeoman-generator or via http://yeoman.io/generators/. 
Install them with npm install generator-@travi/git.

To see all your installed generators run yo without any arguments. Adding the --help option will also show subgenerators. 

If yo cannot find the generator, run yo doctor to troubleshoot your system.

Some debugging details:

$ npm -g root
/usr/local/lib/node_modules

ls /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@travi/
generator-git@

$ yo doctor

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

✔ Global configuration file is valid
✔ NODE_PATH matches the npm root
✔ Node.js version
✖ No .bowerrc file in home directory

We found a undefined file in your home directory. This can cause
issues by overriding expected default config. Prefer setting up one `.bowerrc` per
project.

To delete the file, run: rm ~/.bowerrc

✔ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
✔ npm version

This issue seems to suggest that this should work, but I don't find any details in the docs, so I'm hoping you can help me understand what I might be missing.

[mocheng]

I have same issue.

@molant and @SBoudrias , it looks you have make it work. Would you like to shed some light on this?

[SBoudrias]

Run it with DEBUG=yeoman:* yo and see if you can get any useful information on where Yeoman is resolving the packages.

[travi]

  yeoman:environment found /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@travi/generator-git/generators/git/index.js, trying to register +1ms
  yeoman:environment Resolve namespaces for /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@travi/generator-git/generators/git/index.js: @travi/git:git +0ms
  yeoman:environment Registered @travi/git:git (/Users/admin/development/yo/generator-git/generators/git/index.js) +0ms
? 'Allo Matt! What would you like to do? (Use arrow keys)
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❯ Generator 
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  Install a generator 
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seeing this, I tried running

$ yo @travi/git:git

which worked, so the generator itself seems to be functional.

Admittedly, I haven't built a generator for a while, so I may be forgetting some important details. If so, hopefully you can shed some light on what I missed, but I don't understand why this generator would be getting registered, but wouldn't show up in the list.

[SBoudrias]

I think the list only show top level generators, and not the sub-generators they themselves contains no?

[travi]

that appears to be the problem. i overlooked the fact that the default generator is app and that it must be contained in app/. now that you pointed me in the direction of updating that, i seem to have things working the way that i expected.

it's too bad that yo doctor doesn't warn about generators that it successfully finds that don't define a default. would it be worth me opening a separate issue to suggest that as an improvement to doctor?

[SBoudrias]

it's too bad that yo doctor doesn't warn about generators that it successfully finds that don't define a default. would it be worth me opening a separate issue to suggest that as an improvement to doctor?

I think that's a very good point! Mind opening a ticket here https://github.com/yeoman/doctor ?

[travi]

sure thing: yeoman/doctor#32