ncreate

npm create or git clone && rimraf .git => ncreate

Create your new project from a NPM, GitHub or local template with a single command.

Installation

npm install -g ncreate

Usage

NPM template

ncreate vue@latest my-vue-app

# npm create vue@latest my-vue-app

The agent of ncreate is configurable, you can use npm, yarn, pnpm or bun as the agent.

GitHub template

ncreate Lu-Jiejie/ts-starter my-ts-app

# git clone https://github.com/Lu-Jiejie/ts-starter my-ts-app
# cd my-ts-app
# rimraf .git

The way to create a project from a GitHub template refers to degit.

It means that you can ncreate a GitHub template with a spcific branch, tag or commit hash. Like:

ncreate Lu-Jiejie/ts-starter#main my-ts-app

ncreate Lu-Jiejie/ts-starter#9d73fe3 my-ts-app

All the GitHub templates will be cached in ~/.ncreate/github by default, for the sake of speed.

Local template

ncreate ts-starter my-ts-app

The local templates are configured in ~/.ncreate/config.json. See Configuration.

Interactive prompt

ncreate

If you don't provide the template name, ncreate will prompt you to choose a template from history or local templates.

All the given choices will be sorted by the last used time.

The history will be saved in ~/.ncreate/history.json.

Configuration

You can configure some options in ~/.ncreate/config.json.

{
  // The default agent of ncreate. Null means choosing the agent by interactive prompt.
  "agent": "pnpm",
  // The local templates.
  "localTemplates": [
    {
      // The name of the template.
      "name": "ts-starter",
      // The local path to the local template.
      "path": "PATH_TO_YOUR_LOCAL_TEMPLATE"
    }
  ]
}

Inspiration

bun create from bun

But bun create is terrible on Windows.