michaelowens/wilfred

A local boilerplate manager. Add folders as boilerplates and initialize projects from them using your terminal.

Wilfred

A local boilerplate manager. Add folders as boilerplates and initialize projects from them using your terminal.

What exactly is Wilfred?

Wilfred is a simple boilerplate manager. Similar to yeoman, but works with local folders. Add an existing folder as boilerplate and you're ready to go, no internet required.

Requirements

Node v4 or higher

Installation

npm install -g wilfred

Usage

For more information on how to use wilfred run wilfred --help

Features

• Local folders
• Interactive and non-interactive mode¹
• .wilfredhook for running commands after copy
• GitHub support
• .wilfredignore for files to ignore during copy (maybe?)
• Bash autocomplete

_{^{1: If you pass in the boilerplate name as argument it will run non-interactive. If you don't it will run in interactive mode.}}

Changelog

0.1.6

• Stop using os.homedir() for backwards compatibility
• Fix issue where hook would run from parent directory when using wilfred to make project folder

0.1.5

• Fix issue where -s did not silence all output
• Add support for .wilfredhook file, which will run after copying

0.1.4

• Fix error when using wilfred without boilerplates added

0.1.3

• Add -r / --remove option to remove a boilerplate
• Fix being able to add boilerplates with the same name

0.1.2

• Fix issue where first boilerplate was not automatically selected in interactive mode
• Fix error when destination folder does not exist

0.1.1

• Add -l / --list option to get a list of all added boilerplates

wilfred's Issues

Ignore .git directory

It would be nice if wilfred ignored .git so it doesn't overwrite my existing repo.

I supposed this can be implemented with a .wilfredignore.

GitHub support

Ability to use a GitHub repository link rather than a local folder. I know a lot of people like to put boilerplates online as well, so this way Wilfred can be used to handle both scenarios. Still no need for complex "generators", just a simple checkout of a repository.

.wilfredhook for commands to run after copy

Run .wilfredhook file via bash, so you can e.g. run npm install/installation scripts/etc after copying a boilerplate.

error while trying to copy boilerplate

I have no clue why this doesnt work, since it worked for me before.....

and yes this also happens when i use the interactive mode

Give a nice error when boilerplate folder is deleted

Now app crashes after boilerplate being deleted.

Add option that returns path of a boilarplate

For example

$ wilfred -p my-boilerplate
/path/to/my-boilerplate

Then you could do like cd wilfred -p my-boilerplate``