yeoman-generator

I'm writing my first Yeoman generator, which prompts the user for various inputs and conditionally creates files based on their responses. I need to be able to call a subroutine (could be a Yeoman sub-generator) based on user input, and pass arguments to it. The reason I want to use named functions (which are not automatically run) is that sometimes the user's response should invoke a number of functions combined, and sometimes the function should be run alone. What I have tried: I figured sub-generators were the way to go, since I'm creating sets of files only if the user requests them. But I

So just to give you some context, I'm trying to create a generator that will create some files (based on user input of course) as well as update some existing files in the project (like adding a new route for example). Creating the files using this.template is no problem... the question is: is there any way to do this with Yeoman without having to read the file using Node and doing some fanciful find and replace? Remy Ok, so I found the answer to my question. Addy Osmani showed me where to look in this thread on twitter , and then I later found this link which shows exactly what I need. The

i have a grunt script that uses usemin but the weird thing is is that the index.html file is not affected by usemin at all! it means that my file still has all the <!-- build:css styles/main.css --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/bs-growl-notifications.css"> <!-- endbuild --> the weirdest part in the log is this(it does nothing although it found the blocks-see full log): Processing as HTML - dist/index.html Update the HTML to reference our concat/min/revved script files Update the HTML with the new css filenames Update the HTML with the new

My yeoman generator copies files from template to destination path: this.fs.copyTpl( this.templatePath(), this.destinationPath(), { appName: this.props.appName }); During project generation, I need to assign value of this.props.appName to some of filenames. Unfortunately I can't do this that way like I could do inside this files: <%=appName%>-project.sln All files that need to be renamed have appTemplate in their names, so what I need to do is simply replace appTemplate with value of this.props.appName . Can I somehow configure copyTpl to rename some of files while copying them to another

I am new to yeoman set of tools. I run following commands in Ubuntu 12 $ npm install -g yo $ npm install -g generator-webapp $ yo webapp I am able to create a web app project. After that I tried to create an angular project. First I run a command $ npm install -g generator-angular And no error is displayed with installation of this generator. When I run the command $ yo angular I get the error: Error angular You don't seem to have a generator with the name angular installed. You can see available generators with npm search yeoman-generator and then install them with npm install [name]. To see

I updated my JHipster installation as per this page by running the command npm update -g generator-jhipster But to update my application I am not sure where should I run the next command yo jhipster . I tried running it from the root of existing project, but it asked me to enter the name of the new project. I tried running it at one level above the root of existing project, then also it asked me the name of the new project. But this time I entered the same name and the jhipster generation process ran. However there was no change in any of the major files like package.json or Gruntfile.js or