embellish-readme

Embelish your README with badges other autogenerated content


Keywords
documentation-tool, markdown, readme
License
MIT
Install
npm install embellish-readme@1.4.0

Documentation

embellish

Embellish is a simple utility to add various embellishments to your projects README (or other markdown files).

NPM

unstable Maintainability

General usage

Once installed (either globally or locally to your project):

embellish <targetfile>

e.g. embellish README.md

Features

Auto insertion of project badges

Let's face it, badges are the hotness. Adding them to your readme though is a pain. May as well let a tool do that for you instead. Embelish can add (and update) various relevant project badges to your README.md file. The insertion position is after the first paragraph after the first H1 defined in your markdown file (and right before the next heading).

Auto insertion of license information

When embellishing a README file, a search is done for a ## LICENSE header. After this header all existing content is remove and an applicable license description added for the project license as described in the project package.json file.

This also generates the appropriate LICENSE file in the current working directory.

NOTE: In the event that you wish to display a difference licence holder to the author information that is contained within package.json simply add the following to your package.json file:

{
  "name": "foo",
  ...,
  "embellish": {
    "licenseHolder": "Acme Corp"
  }
}

Auto insertion of examples

Upcoming feature.

When updating the target markdown file, embellish will check for the presence of an examples directory in the current working directory. If found, it will then iterate through the child directories and include each of the examples in the target file. It will include two things:

  1. The content of any README.md found in the examples/[example]/ directory.
  2. The content of any index.js file found in the examples/[example]/ directory as a GHFM code block.

This technique currently works well for browserify friendly demos, however, more work is to be done to achieve compatibility with other tooling.

LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2023 Damon Oehlman damon.oehlman@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.