CanJS generator for Yeoman.
- Install the generator:
npm install -g generator-canjs
- Go to the directory where your project will be developed:
mkdir my_project && cd my_project
- Run:
yo canjs
$ yo canjs
This will create basic application scaffold. It will allow you to choose if you're using
RequireJS as a dependency management. This setting will
affect the canjs:model
and the canjs:control
generators.
$ yo canjs:model path/to/model
This will create the model file. If you call this generator as yo canjs:model models/user
it will create user.js
file in the models
folder.
Model generator will offer to create fixtures for the generated model. For the User
model fixtures
will be generated in the fixtures/users.js
file.
$ yo canjs:control path/to/control/folder
This generator is different than canjs:model
as it doesn't create just one file. Instead,
it creates a folder which contains all files needed to run this control in isolation.
If you run it like:
$ yo canjs:control controls/users
it will create following structure:
controls/
users/
users.js // control file
users.html // demo page
init.mustache // example mustache view
init.ejs // example ejs view
This generator installs https://github.com/retro/require-can-renderers which allow loading of
mustache
and ejs
files via RequireJS. It allows you to have code that looks like:
define('mustache!./init', function(initView){
// initView is a renderer function and can be called as:
initView()
})
This generator comes with the Gruntfile.js which provides the build
task. It will compile JavaScript
and view files to the production.js
file.
It is a default task so it can be called as:
$ grunt
Or as:
$ grunt build