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scaffold

The scaffold command is an interactive prompt that scaffolds a project or package from scratch. It creates all the necessary files, folders, and configurations for maintaining an npm package(s).

The command requires a destination folder param to copy files to. The path is relative to the current working directory.

packemon scaffold .

Options​

Scaffold supports the following command line options.

  • --force - Overwrite files that already exist (if running the same command multiple times).
  • --skipInstall - Skip installation of npm dependencies. Defaults to false.
  • --packageManager - Package manager to install dependencies with. Defaults to yarn.
  • --packagesFolder - Folder in which packages will be located (monorepo only). Defaults to packages.
  • --template - Template to select by default.

Templates​

The following templates can be scaffolded.

monorepo​

Structures a project to be a monorepo of many packages.

  • Creates config files for common developer tools (Babel, ESLint, Jest, TypeScript, etc), based on moonrepo presets.
  • Creates a packages folder where all packages will exist. Create a package with the monorepo-package template.
  • Configures package.json with pre-defined scripts and Yarn workspaces.
  • Configures tsconfig.json for type-checking and project references.

monorepo-package​

Creates an npm package within a monorepo's packages folder. Requires monorepo to be scaffolded first!

  • Creates src and tests folders with example TypeScript files.
  • Creates a package.json with information gathered from the prompts.
  • Configures package tsconfig.jsons to use project references.
  • Adds a reference to the root tsconfig.json.

polyrepo-package​

Structures a project to be a polyrepo. Creates a single npm package within the current folder.

  • Creates config files for common developer tools (Babel, ESLint, Jest, TypeScript, etc), based on moonrepo presets.
  • Creates src and tests folders with example TypeScript files.
  • Creates a package.json with information gathered from the prompts.
  • Configures package.json with pre-defined scripts.
  • Configures tsconfig.json for type-checking.