https://github.com/mmarcon/Bootstrapper

Handy Node.js command line application to manage templates and boilerplates.
https://github.com/mmarcon/Bootstrapper

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Handy Node.js command line application to manage templates and boilerplates.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mmarcon/Bootstrapper
• Owner: mmarcon
• Created: 2012-04-15T13:38:37.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-01-17T12:20:23.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-16T23:03:52.529Z (6 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://j.mp/HLizQL
• Size: 125 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Bootstrapper

Bootstrapper is a handy Node.js command line application to manage templates and boilerplates.

Bootstrapper stores user-defined templates in its template folder where they are always available every time they are needed.

## Installing Bootstrapper

Bootstrapper is available via npm. I suggest to install it globally so the executable is always available without having to change the `$PATH`.

In order to install it just type the following into the terminal:

    sudo npm install -g bootstrapper

or, in case you want to avoid a global installation just type:

    npm install bootstrapper

Bootstrapper depends on [wrench-js](https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/wrench-js), as that was the most convenient way to quickly copy and delete directories recursively.

## How to

The semantic of the tool is very simple.

Show help information:

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper help

List all the available templates:

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper list

    * Just another template [My new test template for bootstrapper,  Created by Massimiliano Marcon on 14/04/2012]

    * My new test template [Hello,  Created by mmarcon on 14/04/2012]

    * Nokia Maps boilerplate app [A boilerplate to build a map-based application using the Nokia Maps API,  Created by Massimiliano Marcon on 14/04/2012]

Create an empty template (the tool requests some information on the new template):

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper generate

Convert current working directory into a Bootstrapper template (handy to make a Bootstrapper template out of a Github repository):

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper init

Add a template to the template database:

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper add path/to/template_directory

Add a template to the template database from a remote location (tar.gz required):

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper add http://website.com/templates/nokiamaps.tar.gz

Remove a template from the template database:

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper remove "Template Name"

Use a template (creates a new folder containing the template files):

    mmarcon@wallace$ bootstrapper use <"Template Name"|REGEXP>

## Details

Bootstrapper stores all the data into `$HOME/.bootstrapper`.

The directory contains a `log` folder (currently unused) and a `templates` folder where all the templates are stored. The structure of a template is very simple:

    - template_name_lowercase

       |- template.json

       |- some_other_template.file

       |- some_subfolder

`template.json` is just a little JSON file that contains name, description, author and creation date for the template.

## Remote Templates

Potentially any Github repository can become a template. It just needs to contain a simple `template.json` file that looks like this:

    {

        "date": "17/04/2012",

        "name": "HTML5 Boilerplate",

        "description": "A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.",

        "author": "http://html5boilerplate.com"

    }

As a little test I converted the well known HTML5 Boilerplate to a Bootstrapper template. After installing Bootstrapper you can add the HTML5 Boilerplate to your collection of templates by typing:

    bootstrapper add https://github.com/mmarcon/html5-boilerplate/tarball/master

Should the `template.json` not be available the tool will guide you trough a few easy steps to just create it locally once the repository has been downloaded. Isn't that great?