HardHat

Scaffolding utility for blue-collar programmers.

About / Why?

There are a few other scaffolding libraries out there, some more recently updated than others. One thing most of them share in common is that they all do a little too much. I don't need option parsing, I can use optimist. I don't need a command prompt library, prompt already takes care of that. I don't need cli routing, I'm happy to use flatiron/director.

HardHat aims to solve specific problems and be another tool in your overall command-line application.

Features

• scaffold(): Copy a directory of scaffold folders & files (templates) to a new destination.
  • Your templates can be written using any engine that consolidate supports (currently 14 engines including jade, handlebars, etc.)
• More? Pull requests welcome :)

Installation

Install via npm (node package manager)

$ [sudo] npm install hardhat

Usage

hardhat.scaffold

The scaffold() method copies files and directories from one location to another, optionally applying template data to them.

The templating is powered by consolidate, so you can use any of its supported engines (jade, handlebars, ejs, etc.).

var hardhat = require('hardhat');

hardhat.scaffold(<srcDir>, <destDir>, options, function(err) {
  // All done!
});

The available options (and their defaults) are:

var options = {
  engine: 'handlebars', // The consolidate-supported template engine to use.
  ext: 'tpl', // The extension prefix to trigger templating (see below).
  encoding: 'utf8', // The file encoding for templates (non templates can be any encoding).
  data: {} // Template data to pass to the engine.
};

In order to trigger templating on your source files, you shoud add an extension prefix matching the options passed or the default. So for example, if your source file is index.html but you want templating to be applied, you should name it index.tpl.html. Scaffold will apply the templating and write the file to the destination as index.html, stripping the extension prefix.

If you are happy with the default options and do not have any template data to pass, you can omit options from the method call like:

var hardhat = require('hardhat');

hardhat.scaffold(<srcDir>, <destDir>, function(err) {
  // All done and used the default options.
});

Examples

Coming Soon

Running Tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ [sudo] npm install -d

Run the tests:

$ make test