npm-skeleton

A boilerplate for creating healthy npm modules.

The Setup

• strict mode JavaScript
• mocha test harness with nice output
• dotenv, which reads .env into process.env.
• a .gitignore for .env and the node_modules directory
• a hollowed-out package.json

Usage

Put this in .bashrc or whatever:

skeleton() {
  git clone https://github.com/zeke/npm-skeleton $1
  cd $1
  rm -rf ./.git
  echo "FOO=BAR" >> .env
  echo "node_modules" >> .gitignore
  echo ".env" >> .gitignore
  npm install
  npm test
  git init
  git add .
  git commit -am "---=[ npm skeleton ]=---"
}

Then pass a name for your new project:

skeleton that-new-thang