hygen-add is one of the tools in the Hygen toolbelt which allows you to add pre-made generator packages to your project.

Install:

$ yarn add --dev hygen-add

And add a package:

$ hygen-add test-package

A package can be a Git repository, path (location), or a node module. In all cases, a package needs:

• To have a package.json file that is installable by Yarn.
• To have a _templates folder where your generators will be.

Since there are two options to use (Git and npm), using Git you can end up with a repository that's named one thing, and the package in it is named another thing.

Here's how to treat all cases.

If you decide to push your package as a proper node module, then you must prefix its name as hygen-YOURNAME, and installing it will be:

$ hygen-add YOURNAME

We use the hygen- prefix to avoid trashing the node module ecosystem, and to allow for easy search. Meaning, you can search for hygen- to get a listing of all packages on a node module registry.

If you decide to publish as a Git repo, you can use hygen-add like this:

$ hygen-add https://github.com/jondot/foo-bar

A name of a package, even if it's on a Git repo and was never pushed to npm, is still the same name that is specified in your package.json file.

With that in mind any repo works and there's no special naming rules for the repo itself. In this case the default name for the package will be foo-bar and taken directly from the Git repo address.

If you have a different name within the actual package in the repo, you can override the default and specify a name:

$ hygen-add https://github.com/jondot/not-a-name --name best-generator

Fork, implement, add tests, pull request, get my everlasting thanks and a respectable place here :).

To all Contributors - you make this happen, thanks!

Copyright (c) 2018 Dotan Nahum @jondot. See LICENSE for further details.