Writing Your Own Banana Generator

• Writing Your Own Generator
  • Organizing your generators
    • Setting up as a node module
    • Folder tree
  • Extending generator
    • Overwriting the constructor
    • Adding your own functionality
  • Running the generator
    • Finding the project root
  • Where to go from here?
• Generator Runtime Context
  • Prototype methods as actions
    • Helper and private methods
  • The run loop
• Asynchronous tasks
• Interacting With The User
  • User interactions
    • Prompts
      • Remembering user preferences
    • Arguments
    • Options
  • Outputting Information
• Composability
  • generator.composeWith()
    • API
    • execution example
  • dependencies or peerDependencies
• Managing Dependencies
  • pip
  • Using other tools
• Working With The File System
  • Location contexts and paths
    • Destination context
    • Template context
  • An “in memory” file system
  • File utilities
    • Example: Copying a template file
  • Transform output files through streams
  • Tip: Update existing file’s content
• Managing Configuration
  • Methods
    • generator.config.save()
    • generator.config.set()
    • generator.config.get()
    • generator.config.getAll()
    • generator.config.delete()
    • generator.config.defaults()
  • .ba-rc.json structure
• Testing Generators
  • Organizing your tests
  • Test helpers
  • Assertions helpers
    • Assert files exists
    • Assert a file content
• Debugging Generators
• Integrating Banana
  • The basics
  • Using banana
    • A simple usage example
    • Find installed generators
    • Get data about registered generator
  • Providing a custom User Interface (UI)
    • Adapter#prompt()
    • Adapter#diff()
    • Adapter#log()
  • Example implementations