(Introduction article v1)

How much time do you spend copying and pasting the component folder to create a new one ?
This is a tool to generate different types of React components from the terminal.

Available extension

What you can do with this tool ?

• You can use templates from the community 🎉
• Create your components guided from terminal with a lot of choices
• You can create a configuration file in your current project directory
• You can also pass a configuration file from params
• You can use your own custom templates
• Share your template to the community

Install

$ npm install -g create-component-app

Usage

$ cd ~/my-projects
$ create-component-app

Create your components guided from terminal with a lot of choices

• Create different kind of components:
  • stateless
  • class
  • pure
  • custom
• Set name of the new component
• Integrate connect function of redux
• Include an index file
• Set a different component extension
  • js
  • jsx
• Set a different style extension
  • css
  • scss
  • sass
  • less
• Include a storybook file
• Include a test file (with enzyme)
• Set the destionation path of the new component

You can create a configuration file in your current project directory

Create a file in your project folder named .ccarc:

{
    "type": "class",
    "path": "./src/components",
    "jsExtension": "js",
    "cssExtension": "scss",
    "includeTests": false,
    "includeStories": false,
    "indexFile": false,
    "connected": false,
    "componentMethods": [
        "componentDidMount",
        "shouldComponentUpdate",
        "onClick"
    ],
    "fileNames": {
        "testFileMatch": "spec",
        "testFileName": "myTest",
        "componentFileName": "template",
        "styleFileName": "style"
    }
}

You can also pass a config file

1. Create a JSON file config.json:

{   
    // Default type of component ["stateless", "class", "pure"]
    "type": "stateless",

    // Default path to get the templates from the custom templates folder
    "templatesDirPath": "./templates",

    // Default path to create component file and folder
    "path": "./src/components",

    // Default extension for your javascript file ["js", "jsx"]
    "jsExtension": "js",

    // Default extension for your css file ["css", "scss", "sass", "less", false]
    // Set to false if you don't want a style file
    "cssExtension": "css",

    // Default flag to include a test file in the folder [true, false]
    "includeTests": true,

    // Default flag to include a storybook file in the folder [true, false]
    "includeStories": true,

    // Default flag to create an index file in the folder [false, true]
    "indexFile": false,

    // Default flag to integrate connect redux in the index file [false, true]
    "connected": false,

    // Only for "class" and "pure", insert method inside the component
    "componentMethods": ["componentDidMount", "shouldComponentUpdate", "onClick"],

    // Choose the specific filename for your component's file.
    "fileNames": {
        "testFileMatch": "spec", // specify the match part of test file
        "testFileName": "myTest", // specify the file name of your test file
        "componentFileName": "template", // specify the component file name
        "styleFileName": "style" // specify the style file name !!IMPORTANT: Include cssExtension.
    }
}

2. and pass the path to config param

$ create-component-app --config path/to/your/config.json

Passing a config file via the CLI overrides the configuration file in the working directory

You can use your own custom templates

Simple steps to create your own templates docs/custom-templates

You can use templates from the community

Now, the first question that you receive is Do you wanna choose a template? if you answer yes, you can see the list of templates from the community.

• (Optional) Add to the settings templatesDirPath - a custom path to the user custom templates folder.
• (Optional) Add to the settings templates - a list of used templates (with a default) to filter the list
• (Optional) The user can choose between the available templates or use create-component-app -t templateName

Contributing

Now, the community can offer their templates! How?

Check the issue list to contribute on some activities or to advice new features! The library is open to everybody, contribute improve your skills.

create-component-app is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.

Use npm run watch while coding.

Contributors

License

MIT © Christian Varisco