Template Generator Management

Generate project structure from git template repository.

Why tgm?

• Manage all template repositories
• Create app from template quickly
• Prompt for template variables

Template repository

Please add template.json file in your template repository, code as following：

json { "name": "spring-boot-java", "repository": "https://github.com/linux-china/spring-boot-java-template", "description": "Spring Boot App Java", "post_create": "mvn -DskipTests compile", "variables": [ { "name": "groupId", "value": "org.mvnsearch", "description": "Maven groupId" }, { "name": "artifactId", "value": "spring-boot-demo", "description": "Maven artifactId" } ], "files": [ "pom.xml","src/main/resources/application.properties" ] }

In the resource files, such as pom.xml, use template variable as following:

xml <project> <groupId>@groupId@</groupId> <artifactId>@artifactId@</artifactId> </project>

Install & Usage

$ cargo install tgm $ tgm add linux-china/spring-boot-java-template $ tgm list $ tgm create spring-boot-java spring-app-demo

tgm commands:

• list: list all templates
• add: add new template from github template repository or manual

$ tgm add linux-china/spring-boot-kotlin-template $ tgm add spring-boot-java https://github.com/linux-china/spring-boot-java-template.git

• remove: remove template

$ tgm remove spring-boot-java

• create: create app from template

$ tgm create spring-boot-java spring-demo1

References

• Command line utilities: https://lib.rs/command-line-utilities
• Command-line apps in Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/what/cli
• Serde: framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures https://serde.rs/