Merge pull request #4 from shoaibmohommed/feat/automatic-app-generation

Fixed project structure and automatic generate project structure in s…

Author: Aakashdeveloper

.vscode/launch.json

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
+    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
+    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
+    "version": "0.2.0",
+    "configurations": [
+        {
+            "type": "node",
+            "request": "launch",
+            "name": "Launch Program",
+            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/index.js"
+        }
+    ]
+}

Readme.md

@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ This is the seed application for node js
 
 ## How To Start
 Inside node_modules folder
-* Navigate to @aakashdeveloper folder
-* Copy create-node-app and paste in new folder
-* Inside create-node-app run npm install > npm start
+* globally install this module with npm "npm install -g @aakashdeveloper/create-node-app"
+* go to the directory where you want to generate the project files
+* run "generate" in shell/cmd and follow the instructions.
+* inside your newly created project folder run "npm start".
 * Navigate to http://localhost:7600
 
 

index.js

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+const CURR_DIR = process.cwd();
+const inquirer = require('inquirer');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const shell = require('shelljs');
+
+const CHOICES = fs.readdirSync(`${__dirname}/templates`);
+
+const QUESTIONS = [
+    {
+        name: 'project-choice',
+        type: 'list',
+        message: 'What project template would you like to generate?',
+        choices: CHOICES
+    },
+    {
+        name: 'project-name',
+        type: 'input',
+        message: 'Project name:',
+        validate: function (input) {
+            if (/^([A-Za-z\-\_\d])+$/.test(input)) return true;
+            else return 'Project name may only include letters, numbers, underscores and hashes.';
+        }
+    }
+];
+console.log(`index.js is running...`);
+inquirer.prompt(QUESTIONS)
+    .then(answers => {
+        const projectChoice = answers['project-choice'];
+        const projectName = answers['project-name'];
+        const templatePath = `${__dirname}/templates/${projectChoice}`;
+
+        fs.mkdirSync(`${CURR_DIR}/${projectName}`);
+        console.log(`creating seed project....`);
+        return Promise.all([createDirectoryContents(templatePath, projectName), projectName]);
+    }).then(([result2, projectName]) => {
+        console.log(`seed project created successfully....`);
+
+        console.log("installing modules...");
+        console.log(`entering in ${projectName} directory...`);
+        shell.cd(projectName);
+        //process.chdir(`${CURR_DIR}/${projectName}`);
+
+        shell.echo(`current working directory is ${process.cwd()}`);
+        if (shell.exec('npm install').code !== 0) {
+            shell.echo('Error: Git commit failed');
+            shell.exit(1);
+        } else {
+            shell.echo('packages installed successfully.');
+        }
+    });
+
+function createDirectoryContents(templatePath, newProjectPath) {
+    const filesToCreate = fs.readdirSync(templatePath);
+
+    filesToCreate.forEach(file => {
+        const origFilePath = `${templatePath}/${file}`;
+
+        // get stats about the current file
+        const stats = fs.statSync(origFilePath);
+
+        if (stats.isFile()) {
+            const contents = fs.readFileSync(origFilePath, 'utf8');
+
+            // Rename
+            if (file === '.npmignore') file = '.gitignore';
+
+            const writePath = `${CURR_DIR}/${newProjectPath}/${file}`;
+            fs.writeFileSync(writePath, contents, 'utf8');
+        } else if (stats.isDirectory()) {
+            fs.mkdirSync(`${CURR_DIR}/${newProjectPath}/${file}`);
+
+            // recursive call
+            createDirectoryContents(`${templatePath}/${file}`, `${newProjectPath}/${file}`);
+        }
+    });
+}