Projectz

Stop wasting time syncing and updating your project's README and Package Files!

This far, projectz is used directly by 802 repositories and 348 packages, and indirectly by 2936 repositories and 349 packages.

Watch the talk.

Here's some of the things it can do:

• Keep your project's package files synchronised appropriately, supports:
  • package.json
  • bower.json
  • component.json
  • jquery.json
• Create beautiful standardised readme files that stay in sync with your package files, supports:
  • README
  • CONTRIBUTING
  • LICENSE
  • BACKERS
  • HISTORY
• Automatic injection of the appropriate installation methods, supports:
  • npm
  • deno
  • jspm
  • Component
  • Bower
  • Editions
  • DocPad Plugins
• Automatic injection of your desired badges
• Automatic injection of your SPDX license information
• Keep your data and readme files up to date with remote data, supports:
  • Pulling in your latest contributors from GitHub
  • Pulling in your latest sponsors from remote APIs (coming soon)

Running Projectz

Directly

Once installed locally, you can compile your project using projectz by running the following in your terminal:

1npx projectz

Automatically

To make projectz more automatic, we recommended adding the direct command above to your build tool.

If you don't use a build tool, but do use npm, then you can add the following to your project's package.json file:

1{
2    "scripts": {
3        "compile": "projectz",
4        "posttest": "projectz"
5    }
6}

The compile script here is runnable via the command npm run-script compile and will compile your project with projectz.

The posttest script here automatically compiles your project with projectz after your tests have successfully completed, providing you use npm test to run your tests. This is a great place to put projectz as projectz only updates meta documents so won't affect your test, and will always run before a publish.

GitHub Rate Limiting

If you get a rate limit warning, you will need to add GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN (or a GITHUB_CLIENT_ID AND GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET combination) to your environment. To do this:

1. Create a personal access token for your computer at: https://github.com/settings/tokens
2. Projectz needs the readonly/access permissions for repos and users
3. Generate the token and copy it
4. Inside your dotfile profile (.bashrc, .zshrc) add export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN="the token value"
5. Open a new shell, or run export GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN="the token value" in your current shell
6. Run projectz again

Configuring Projectz

Package Files

Projectz helps you maintain the following package files:

• package.json
• bower.json
• component.json
• jquery.json

It does this by reading them, combining their data in memory, and then outputting the appropriate fields and over-rides for each file.

If you are making use of multiple package files, you may find defining a projectz.json package file will help, as it can serve as a central location for the configuration of all the other files. However, if you only require one package file, then you can ignore this ability.

Projectz takes notes of these meta data fields:

1{
2    // Specify your project's human readable name
3    "title": "Projectz",
4
5    // Specify your project name
6    "name": "projectz",
7
8    // Specify your project's Website URL
9    "homepage": "https://github.com/bevry/projectz",
10
11    // Specify your project's demo URL
12    // If this is missing, and `homepage` is set, we set it to the `homepage` value
13    "demo": "https://github.com/bevry/projectz",
14
15    // Specify your project description
16    "description": "Stop wasting time syncing and updating your project's README and Package Files!",
17
18    // Specify your project's SPDX License
19    // Uses https://www.npmjs.com/packages/spdx for parsing
20    "license": "MIT",
21
22    // Specify your whether the project can run on the client-side in web browsers
23    // If this is missing, and the component or bower package files exist, then this becomes `true`
24    "browsers": true,
25
26    // Specify your project's author details
27    // Can be an array or CSV string
28    "author": "2013+ Bevry Pty Ltd <us@bevry.me> (http://bevry.me)",
29
30    // Specify your maintainers
31    "maintainers": [
32        "Benjamin Lupton (b@lupton.cc) (http://balupton.com)"
33    ],
34
35    // Specify your sponsors
36    "sponsors": [
37        "Benjamin Lupton (b@lupton.cc) (http://balupton.com)"
38    ],
39
40    // Specify your contributors
41    // This is automatically combined with the contributors from the GitHub Repository API
42    "contributors": [
43        "Benjamin Lupton (b@lupton.cc) (http://balupton.com)"
44    ],
45
46    // Specify your project's repository details
47    // If this is missing, and `homepage` is a GitHub URL, this determined automatically
48    "repository": {
49        "type": "git",
50        "url": "https://github.com/bevry/projectz.git"
51    },
52
53    // Specify your project's issue tracker
54    // If this is missing, and `repository` is a GitHub repository, this determined automatically
55    "bugs": {
56        "url": "https://github.com/bevry/projectz/issues"
57    },
58
59    // Specify your project's badges for use in the readme files
60    // Projectz renders badges by sending the `badges` field to the `badges` package.
61    // Below is some sample projectz configuration for this field to render our most common badges.
62    // Even more badge types and configurations are available than just those included below.
63    // Complete details of what is available can be found over at the badges package:
64    // https://github.com/bevry/badges
65    "badges": {
66        "list": [
67            "travisci",
68            "npmversion",
69            "npmdownloads",
70            "daviddm",
71            "daviddmdev",
72            "---",
73            "slackin",
74            "patreon",
75            "gratipay",
76            "flattr",
77            "paypal",
78            "bitcoin",
79            "wishlist"
80        ],
81        "config": {
82            "patreonUsername": "bevry",
83            "gratipayUsername": "bevry",
84            "flattrUsername": "balupton",
85            "paypalURL": "https://bevry.me/paypal",
86            "bitcoinURL": "https://bevry.me/bitcoin",
87            "wishlistURL": "https://bevry.me/wishlist",
88            "slackinURL": "https://slack.bevry.me"
89        }
90    },
91
92  // If you are using the projectz meta file, you can also define this field
93  // it allows you to set the configuration for other package systems
94  "packages": {
95    "bower": {},
96    "component": {},
97    "jquery": {}
98  }
99}

Readme Files

Projectz helps you maintain the following readme files:

• README.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• LICENSE.md
• BACKERS.md
• HISTORY.md

It does this by reading them, and replacing comment tags with the appropriate data.

The following comment tags are supported:

• <!-- TITLE --> — outputs the package's title field
• <!-- BADGES --> — outputs the badges you have enabled from your package's badges field
• <!-- DESCRIPTION --> — outputs the package's description field
• <!-- INSTALL --> — outputs the package's installation instructions
• <!-- HISTORY --> — outputs a link to the HISTORY file if it exists, otherwise if it is a Github repository, outputs a link to the releases page
• <!-- CONTRIBUTE --> — outputs a link to the CONTRIBUTE file if it exists
• <!-- BACKERS --> — outputs who the backers are for the project, including maintainers, sponsors, funding badges, and contributors
• <!-- LICENSE --> — outputs a summary of the license information

As well as these comment tags for updating entire files:

• <!-- LICENSEFILE --> — outputs the complete license information
• <!-- BACKERSFILE --> — same as <!-- BACKERS --> but made for an individual file instead

As an example, here is a a basic README.md file:

<!-- TITLE -->
<!-- BADGES -->
<!-- DESCRIPTION -->
<!-- INSTALL -->

## Usage

Complete API Documentation.

Usage instructions go here

<!-- HISTORY -->
<!-- CONTRIBUTE -->
<!-- BACKERS -->
<!-- LICENSE -->

This README is also, expectedly, built with projectz. View its source.

Install

npm

Install Globally

• Install: npm install --global projectz
• Executable: projectz

Install Locally

• Install: npm install --save projectz
• Executable: npx projectz
• Import: import * as pkg from ('projectz')
• Require: const pkg = require('projectz')

Editions

This package is published with the following editions:

• projectz/source/index.ts is TypeScript source code with Import for modules
• projectz aliases projectz/edition-es2022/index.js
• projectz/edition-es2022/index.js is TypeScript compiled against ES2022 for Node.js 20 with Require for modules
• projectz/edition-es2022-esm/index.js is TypeScript compiled against ES2022 for Node.js 20 with Import for modules
• projectz/edition-types/index.d.ts is TypeScript compiled Types with Import for modules

History

Discover the release history by heading on over to the HISTORY.md file.

Backers

Code

Discover how to contribute via the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Authors

• Benjamin Lupton — Accelerating collaborative wisdom.

Maintainers

• Benjamin Lupton — Accelerating collaborative wisdom.

Contributors

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions
• James George — view contributions
• Oliver Lorenz — view contributions
• Peter C — view contributions
• Peter Flannery — view contributions
• Rob Loach — view contributions
• Shahar "Dawn" Or — view contributions
• vsopvsop — view contributions
• Zearin — view contributions
• Zlatan Vasović — view contributions

Finances

Sponsors

• Andrew Nesbitt — Software engineer and researcher
• Balsa — We're Balsa, and we're building tools for builders.
• Codecov — Empower developers with tools to improve code quality and testing.
• Poonacha Medappa
• Rob Morris
• Sentry — Real-time crash reporting for your web apps, mobile apps, and games.
• Syntax — Syntax Podcast

Donors

• Andrew Nesbitt
• Armen Mkrtchian
• Balsa
• Chad
• Codecov
• dr.dimitru
• Elliott Ditman
• entroniq
• GitHub
• Hunter Beast
• Jean-Luc Geering
• Michael Duane Mooring
• Michael Harry Scepaniak
• Mohammed Shah
• Mr. Henry
• Nermal
• Pleo
• Poonacha Medappa
• Rob Morris
• Robert de Forest
• Sentry
• ServieJS
• Skunk Team
• Syntax
• WriterJohnBuck

License

Unless stated otherwise all works are:

• Copyright © Benjamin Lupton

and licensed under:

• Artistic License 2.0