Questions
We will use makesjs/demo2. Try it with:
npx makes makesjs/demo2 # or npx makes makesjs/demo2 my-app
This demo skeleton defined an optional file questions.js, plus some feature folders nodejs and ruby (we will talk about them in next page).
─ questions.js
─ common/
├── LICENSE__if_license
└── REAME.md
─ nodejs/
├── .babelrc__if_babel
├── .gitignore
├── index.js__if_not_babel_and_not_typescript
├── package.json
└── src/
├── index.js__if_babel
└── index.ts__if_typescript
─ ruby/
└── main.rb
The optional questions.js file needs to provide an array of questions. “makes” support CommonJS and ESM. For simplicity, “makes” doesn’t support any Babel/TypeScript transpiling. It must be written in pain CommonJS/ESM format which Node.js can understand.
To use CommonJS format, use file name questions.js or questions.cjs with following content:
module.exports = [
// list of questions...
];
To use ESM format, use file name questions.mjs or questions.js with additional package.json with "type": "module" (so that Nodejs will treat any JS file in your skeleton with ESM format):
questions.mjs
export default [
// list of questions ...
]
package.json, only needed if you use file name questions.js for ESM code.
{ "type": "module" }
For more information, please review CommonJS/ESM support.
“makes” supports only three types of questions: text prompt, select prompt, multi-select prompt. These prompts are based on prompts, but customised and simplified.