choo-cli

This is a tool for generating choo apps.

To Install (you'll need at least node v6):

npm install choo-cli -g

Using choo-cli will scaffold out a project and help generate additional files like models, pages, and elements. It also generates common scripts you can use to build/test/serve your choo app.

# generate a new project folder,
# comes with package.json, readme, and recommended structure
choo new my-new-project 

# using yarn?
choo new my-new-project --yarn

# generate a new page
choo generate page my-new-page

# generate a new model
choo generate model my-new-model

# generate a new element
choo generate element my-new-element

# run your app at localhost:8080
npm start

# build your app for production
npm run build:prod

# test your app
npm test

Usage

Choo-cli runs off of node and npm, you can install choo-cli globably with the following command:

The basic signature of a choo-cli command look like this:

$ choo <command> <name> [options]

For example to create a new project skeleton we can run:

$ choo new my-project

You can now cd into my-project

$ cd my-project

Choo-cli will create a directory structure that for slim applications and reusability.

assets/        images and fonts, if you have any
elements/      standalone application-specific elements
lib/           generalized components, should be moved out of project later
models/        choo models
pages/         views that are directly mounted on the router
scripts/       shell scripts, to be interfaced with through `npm scripts`
client.js      main application entry; programmatic manifest file
package.json   manifest file

Custom templates

You can also install custom templates from Github, like this

$ choo new <project> from <github-user>/<github-repo>

Custom templates must have ejs templating syntax.

Using yarn

You can have the choo-cli use yarn over npm, like this

$ choo new <project> from <github-user>/<github-repo> --yarn
# or
$ choo new <project> --yarn
# or
$ choo new <project> --yarn from <github-user>/<github-repo>

Debug mode

Choo-cli uses debug - a popular logging framework.

Enable debug mode by adding an environment DEBUG to have choo-cli* as its value

DEBUG=choo-cli* choo new ...

Generators

You can use choo-cli to generate pieces of your project as you are developing. For example you can generate

Pages

$ choo generate page my-page

Models

$ choo generate model my-model

Elements

$ choo generate element my-element

npm scripts

Choo-cli was made for generating choo projects and code, and leverages npm scripts for certain project task. So in our project a set of npm scripts have already been generated that perform various tasks such as testing/serving/building/etc.

At any time you can review the complete list of npm scripts available by viewing package.json or by running the following command:

$ npm run

Here is complete list the the commands and their function

start - start dev server at localhost:8080
build:prod - builds your project to deploy to a server
test - runs unit tests, for now it will just run linting.
lint - runs eslint against your code

So for example you can run npm start to start a dev server. You can now see your app running at localhost:8080 first time this will pull in your node deps and start a budo server