Mason Scaffold

Easily scaffold project templates via the command line

Installation

To add scaffolding to your project, install the plugin: npm i -g mason.plugin.scaffold

Configuration

To register your custom templates, edit your project's Mason configuration using the following example:

module.exports = {
	scaffold: {
		templates: {
			'controller': './templates/controller.js',
			'model': './templates/model.js',
			'admin-panel': './templates/admin-panel.html'
		},
		definitions: {
			foo: 'ConfigForFoo'
		}
	}
};

Definitions

As you can see in the configuration example above, you can also define "Definitions" that serve as default template bindings. Any variable defined in the config will use the config value if none is provided for the template.

Usage

Scaffold is used as follows: mason scaffold [template-name] [destination-filename] --foo=bar --baz=bang Where [template-name] is the registered name of the template you want to use, [destination-filename] is the full path to the new file you wish to create, foo is a template variable that will be replaced with baz, and so on.

Template Syntax

By default, template replacements are prefixed with @@{ and suffixed with }@@. A template containing function @@{foo}@@() {} in the above usage example would result in a file containing function bar() {}

Mason Plugin Support

Scaffold makes it easy to regiter additional templates from within a Mason plugin. To do so, make use of the 'addScaffoldTemplate' event:

Mason.emit('addScaffoldTemplate', { name: 'my-template-name', location: __dirname + '/templates/my-template.js' });

Building Mason Scaffold

To build this plugin, run the following from the project directory: npm run build

Contributions

Thanks to @jaimemasson for the idea and the name.