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hygen - 6.2.11 | npmpackage.info

hygen

The simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project.

6.2.11

5,816

MIT

JavaScript

134.24 kB

2.5

Installations

npm install hygen

Developer Guide

BETA

Typescript

Yes

Module System

CommonJS

Node Version

17.9.1

NPM Version

8.11.0 Pull Requests

Open

15

Total

175

Closed

84

Merged

76

Issues

Open

87

Total

280

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Releases

v6.2.11

Updated on Sep 07, 2022

v6.2.10

Updated on Sep 06, 2022

v6.2.9

Updated on Sep 05, 2022

v6.2.0

Updated on Mar 02, 2022

v6.1.5

Updated on Feb 28, 2022

v6.1.4

Updated on Feb 28, 2022

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TypeScript

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CSS

Perl

Raku

JavaScript (48.02%)

TypeScript (35.11%)

EJS (8.55%)

CSS (8.03%)

Perl (0.24%)

Raku (0.05%)

Developer

jondot

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MIT License

5,816 Stars

539 Commits

268 Forks

52 Watchers

6 Branches

52 Contributors

Updated on Jul 18, 2025

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View All 52 Contributors

Package Meta Information

Latest Version

6.2.11

Package Id

hygen@6.2.11

Unpacked Size

134.24 kB

Size

36.74 kB

File Count

131

NPM Version

8.11.0

Node Version

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hygen is the simple, fast, and scalable code generator that lives in your project.

Features

✅ Build ad-hoc generators quickly and full on project scaffolds.
✅ Local generators per project (and global, if you must)
✅ Built-in scaffolds to quickly create generators
✅ Full logic templates and rendering
✅ Prompts and flows for taking in arguments
✅ Automatic CLI arguments
✅ Adding new files
✅ Injecting into existing files
✅ Running shell commands
✅ Super fast, constantly optimized for speed

New in hygen v4.0.0: a positional NAME parameter. Now you can use $ hygen component new MyComponent instead of $ hygen component new --name MyComponent.

Used By

Wix City of Amsterdam Birdie Ackee Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Tweak Things Crema Cureon Sporty Spots Thrashplay 8base Instamotionh Biotope Frontend Labs Swydo Gridsome Rosem Laboratory Sheffield Hallam University Hackoregon Chilly Design

Quick Start

Hygen can be used to supercharge your workflow with Redux, React Native, Express and more, by allowing you avoid manual work and generate, add, inject and perform custom operations on your codebase.

If you're on macOS and have Homebrew:

$ brew tap jondot/tap
$ brew install hygen

If you have node.js installed, you can install globally with npm (or Yarn):

$ npm i -g hygen

If you like a no-strings-attached approach, you can use npx without installing globally:

$ npx hygen ...

For other platforms, see releases.

Initialize hygen in your project (do this once per project):

$ cd your-project
$ hygen init self

Build your first generator, called mygen:

$ hygen generator new mygen

Loaded templates: _templates
       added: _templates/mygen/new/hello.ejs.t

Now you can use it:

$ hygen mygen new

Loaded templates: _templates
       added: app/hello.js

You've generated content into the current working directory in app/. To see how the generator is built, look at _templates (which you should check-in to your project from now on, by the way).

You can build a generator that uses an interactive prompt to fill in a variable:

$ hygen generator with-prompt mygen

Loaded templates: _templates
       added: _templates/mygen/with-prompt/hello.ejs.t
       added: _templates/mygen/with-prompt/prompt.js

Done! Now let's use mygen:

$ hygen mygen with-prompt
? What's your message? hello

Loaded templates: _templates
       added: app/hello.js

Use a template repo

Want to start from a repo?

$ hygen init repo antfu/vitesse --to my-folder

Want to start from an existing repo on an existing project?

$ mkdir your-project && cd your-project
$ hygen init repo antfu/vitesse

What's Next?

Go to the documentation to get to know the rest of Hygen and generators.

If you're in a hurry:

To learn how to edit generator templates, look here
To see how to use generators look here
Take a look at the ecosystem and tooling built around Hygen.

A Different Kind of a Generator

hygen is a scalable generator. It has developer and team ergonomics as first priority.

It avoids "blessed" or dedicated projects that codifies code generation, which before you know it, become a product you build, needs testing, CI, separate pull request reviews, and ultimately sucks up your time and becomes this super hated thing no one likes to touch anymore.

Plus, since they are not the product you are building they become notoriously hard to reason about.

Scratch Your Own Itch

Because hygen templates live in your project, it cuts the time from having an itch for generating code (Redux, anyone?) in your current project to code generated with it and others benefiting from it.

Template Locality

hygen picks up a local _templates folder at any folder level of your project you're working from.

This is important because:

Templates are project-local. A git clone of the project fetches all generators as well.
Different generators can be tucked in different parts of the project, making it contextual.
Template locality is scalable; different teams can maintain different generators.
When you change your code, you can make changes in the template and pack in the same commit, to be reviewed and merged in the same PR (as opposed to installing different "plugins" or different templates from out-of-repo places).

And yet, if you don't like project-local templates:

You can have a global _templates folder (maybe a central git repo you maintain?) by populating an environment variable HYGEN_TMPLS
You can build a custom generator of your own with hygen at its core, and pack your own templates with it.

Folder Structure is Command Structure

The templates folder structure maps directly to the command structure:

$ hygen worker new jobrunner

For this command, hygen worker new maps to _templates/worker/new and all files within worker/new are rendered.

Template parameters are given with --flag VALUE, as many as you'd like. In this example we've set a parameter named name to the value jobrunner.

Subcommands

A subcommand is a file inside a your folder structure. So if the structure is this:

_templates/
    worker/
      new/
        index.html.ejs
        setup.html.ejs

And you only want setup, you can run:

$ hygen worker new:setup

You can also use the subcommand as a regular expression so, these will do the same:

$ hygen worker new:se

$ hygen worker new:se.*

Frontmatter for Decluttering

Here's how a template looks like (in our example, index.ejs.t). Templates bodies are ejs:

1---
2to: app/workers/<%=name%>.js
3---
4
5class <%= h.capitalize(name) %> {
6    work(){
7        // your code here!
8    }
9}

The first part of the template is a front matter, idea borrowed from Markdown, this is the metadata part of a hygen template and is part of the reason of why your templates will feel more lightweight and flexible.

All frontmatter metadata are also run through the template engine so feel free to use variables in the frontmatter as you wish.

There's one required metadata variable: to. to points to where this file will be placed (folders are created as needed).

Case changing

hygen provides ability to semantic case changing with change-case library, it's simple to use and very easy to understand.

There is a usecase for react based components generation:

1---
2to: components/<%= name %>/index.jsx
3---
4import React from 'react'
5
6export const <%= name %> = ({ children }) => (
7  <div className="<%= h.changeCase.paramCase(name) %>">{children}</div>"
8)

With name HelloWorld will be compiled to:

1import React from 'react'
2
3export const HelloWorld = ({ children }) => (
4  <div className="hello-world">{children}</div>"
5)

You can see the full list here.

Addition, Injection, and More

By default templates are 'added' to your project as a new target file, but you can also choose to inject a template into an existing target file.

For this to work, you need to use inject: true with the accompanied inject-specific props.

1---
2to: package.json
3inject: true
4after: dependencies
5skip_if: react-native-fs
6---
7"react-native-fs":"*",

This template will add the react-native-fs dependency into a package.json file, but it will not add it twice (see skip_if).

Here are the available mutually-exclusive options for where to inject at:

before | after - a regular expression / text to locate. The inject line will appear before or after the located line.
prepend | append - add a line to start or end of file respectively.
line_at - add a line at this exact line number.

You can guard against double injection:

skip_if - a regular expression / text. If exists injection is skipped.

Also you can insert or remove empty line to injection body. That feature very useful if your editor or formatter automatically insert blank line at the end of file on save:

eof_last - if falsy - trim blank line from the end of injection body, if truthy - insert it.

Build Your Own

hygen is highly embeddable. You should be able to use it by simply listing it as a dependency and having this kind of workflow in your binary.

1const { runner } = require('hygen')
2const Logger = require('hygen/dist/logger')
3const path = require('path')
4const defaultTemplates = path.join(__dirname, 'templates')
5
6runner(process.argv.slice(2), {
7  templates: defaultTemplates,
8  cwd: process.cwd(),
9  logger: new Logger.default(console.log.bind(console)),
10  createPrompter: () => require('enquirer'),
11  exec: (action, body) => {
12    const opts = body && body.length > 0 ? { input: body } : {}
13    return require('execa').shell(action, opts)
14  },
15  debug: !!process.env.DEBUG
16})

Development

The Hygen codebase has a functional style where possible. This is because naturally, it feeds parameters and spits out files. Try to keep it that way.

Running hygen locally, rigged to your current codebase (note the additional -- to allow passing flags)

$ yarn hygen -- mailer new foobar

Running tests in watch mode:

$ yarn watch

Metaverse Testing

The easiest way to make an impact is to use the built-in metaverse tests suite, and then add the tests here.

The idea here is to copy templates from any project that use hygen and to test that it works at all times. This keeps tabs on the hygen universe / ecosystem (nicknamed metaverse) and makes sure this test suite breaks before hygen clients break.

Internal Testing

Start Up Speed Testing

Many generators become painfully slow to use as the thing you want to generate grow (because, real life),

This is why hygen takes speed as a first class citizen, and sports a dedicated start-up timing suite:

$ yarn test:require

In addition, thought is given to which dependencies to take in, how their file structure fan out and what kind of disk access (due to require) would hygen ultimately have when we run it. This is recorded with every test run.

Bundling a single file was evaluated (and the infrastructure is still there, using webpack) and wasn't faster than what we have right now.

Contributing

Fork, implement, add tests, pull request, get my everlasting thanks and a respectable place here :).

Thanks:

To all Contributors - you make this happen, thanks!

Copyright

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Vulnerabilities

Determines if the project has open, known unfixed vulnerabilities.

Reason

131 existing vulnerabilities detected

Details

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Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-67hx-6x53-jw92
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Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-hh27-ffr2-f2jc
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-rqff-837h-mm52
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-8v38-pw62-9cw2
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Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-9jgg-88mc-972h
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-g78m-2chm-r7qv
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-6fc8-4gx4-v693
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-3h5v-q93c-6h6q
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-c4w7-xm78-47vh
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-67mh-4wv8-2f99
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-8mmm-9v2q-x3f9
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-765h-qjxv-5f44
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-f2jv-r9rf-7988
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-43f8-2h32-f4cj
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-4xc9-xhrj-v574
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-x5rq-j2xg-h7qm
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-jf85-cpcp-j695
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-22r3-9w55-cj54
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-gcx4-mw62-g8wm
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-wpg7-2c88-r8xv
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-pq67-2wwv-3xjx
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-8cj5-5rvv-wf4v
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-jgrx-mgxx-jf9v
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-7p7h-4mm5-852v
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-38fc-wpqx-33j7
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-3mv9-4h5g-vhg3
Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-j8xg-fqg3-53r7

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/10

Last Scanned on 2025-07-07

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Quick Start

Use a template repo

What's Next?

A Different Kind of a Generator

Scratch Your Own Itch

Template Locality

Folder Structure is Command Structure

Subcommands

Frontmatter for Decluttering

Case changing

Addition, Injection, and More

Build Your Own

Development

Metaverse Testing

Internal Testing

Start Up Speed Testing

Contributing

Thanks:

Copyright

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