After writing several Virgo recipes I thought about how to reduce the effort of creating the always same scaffold and I though to give yeoman a try.
Lucky me there is a Yeoman generator generator project available at GitHub: generator-generator .
Getting started seems easy - just two commands:
$ npm install -g generator-generator
$ yo generator
zsh: command not found: yo
Hm. We need yeoman itself, too. My fault:
$ npm install -g yo
Another little baby step...
$ export PATH=$PATH:/Users/fluffi/npm-global/bin
and off we go!
$ yo generator
? Your generator name generator-virgo-recipe
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I'm all done. Running npm install for you to install the required dependencies. If this fails, try running the command yourself.
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Let's check whether the generator skeleton is able to walk...
cd generator-virgo-recipe
npm test
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generator-virgo-recipe:app
✓ creates files
1 passing (221ms)
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Nice. So everything is prepared for writing the actual generator. But that's a tale for another day.