generate-dest

Prompts the user for the destination directory to use. Can be used from the command line when installed globally, or as plugin or sub-generator in your generator.

What is generate?

Generate is a command line tool and developer framework for scaffolding out new GitHub projects using generators{generators.md} and tasks{tasks.md}. Answers to prompts and the user's environment can be used to determine the templates, directories, files and contents to build. Support for gulp, base and assemble plugins, and much more.

For more information about Generate:

• Visit the generate project
• Visit the generate documentation
• Find generators on npm (help us author generators{micro-generators.md})

Quickstart

CLI usage

Install globally with npm:

$ npm install --global generate-dest

You should now be able to run this generator's default task with the gen git command. See all avallable tasks

API usage

Use as a plugin

Extend your own generator with the settings and features of generate-dest:

module.exports = function(app) {
  app.use(require('generate-dest'));
};

Use as a sub-generator

Add this generator to a namespace in your generator:

module.exports = function(app) {
  // you can use any arbitrary name to register the generator
  app.register('dest', require('generate-dest'));
};

See the API docs for more detailed examples and descriptions.

CLI

Help

Get general help and a menu of available commands:

$ gen help

Running the dest generator

Once both generate and generate-dest are installed globally, you can run the generator with the following command:

$ gen dest

If completed successfully, you should see both starting and finished events in the terminal, like the following:

[00:44:21] starting ...
...
[00:44:22] finished ✔

If you do not see one or both of those events, please let us know about it.

Tasks

The following tasks are registered on the dest generator.

prompt-dest

Prompts the user for the destination directory to use for writing files to the file system. If app.options.dest is already defined, the task is skipped.

Example

$ gen dest:prompt-dest

dest

Alias for the prompt-dest task. (the default task is run when no specific task name is given. This allows the prompt-dest task be run with the $ gen dest command)

Example

$ gen dest:default
# aliased as
$ gen dest

API

Install locally

If you want to use generate-dest as a plugin or sub-generator to extend the features and settings in your own generator, you must first install it locally:

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save generate-dest

Use as a plugin

Use as a plugin if you want to extend your own generator with the features, settings and tasks of generate-dest, as if they were created on your generator:

module.exports = function(app) {
  app.use(require('generate-dest'));
};

Visit Generate's plugin docs to learn more about plugins.

Use as a sub-generator

Use as a sub-generator if you want to add generate-dest to a namespace in your generator:

module.exports = function(app) {
  // register the generate-dest with whatever name you want
  app.register('foo', require('generate-dest'));
};

Visit Generate's sub-generator docs to learn more about sub-generators.

Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

• generate: Generate is a command line tool and developer framework for scaffolding out new GitHub projects… more | homepage
• generate-file: Generator for generating a single file from a template. | homepage
• generate-node: Generate a node.js project, with everything you need to begin writing code and easily publish… more | homepage

Contributing

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Building docs

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Generate readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-readme-generator && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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