Preact Init

Overview

Initiate Preact projects from different starting points, fast and easy.

This tool makes use of preact-roller, a Rollup/Bublé alternative to preact-cli, to start new Preact projects.

Preact Init is highly inspired by create-react-app and vue-cli and tries to merge good ideas from both approaches while keeping it as simple as possible.

If Rollup or Bublé aren't your thing, I recommend you to look at preact-cli.

Features

• Begin Preact projects from different starting points (templates).
• Templates can be installed from public or private Git repositories.
• One-command option: preact-init

Requirements

Preact Init requires at least Node 6 but an 8 version is highly recommended.

Installation

Install it once globally:

npm install -g preact-init

Usage

There’s only 1 command that you can run in 3 different ways:

• preact-init - Assists you to start a new Preact project.
• preact-init <project-name> - Starts a project with a custom name and default template.
• preact-init <project-name> <template-repo> - Starts a project with a custom name from a specific repo.

template-repo must follow the shorthand repo notation of download-git-repo. Example: github:churris/preact-simple-template

Additionally, you can pass the available options:

Options	Alias	Description
--ssh	-s	Clones the template repo with SSH
--help	-h	Shows additional help
--version	-v	Shows the version of preact-init

Example: preact-init my-app -s