Related - Create files based on individual definitions or groups

Related helps with common file-creation-based tasks. You can predefine single types as well as groups. Scripts (lua, binary, javascript [needs node]) can be executed pre/post file creation as well as pre/post groups.

Installation

Download binary for your platform from the releases here or simply build from source.

Usage

!! You can use either _.json or _.yaml for configuration files !!

Place a "(.)related.json" file in your project folder. You can also place <file>.json files in the .related folder. Wherever you like. Paths should be relative to the .related or config/related folder though. Type and group names can't be ambiguous, Related will check this on start.

Splitting into multiple config files can help with organization.

Content example:

{
    "types": [
        {
            "name": "component",
            "template": "typescript/NextFuncComponent.tmpl",
            "path": "",
            "pre": "typescript/MyCustomJS.lua",
            "post": "typescript/MyCustomPostScript.lua",
            "suffix": ".tsx"
        },
        {
            "name": "cssmodule",
            "path": "styles",
            "suffix": ".module.css"
        }
    ],
    "groups": [
        {
            "name": "component",
            "types": ["component", "cssmodule"],
            "pre": "typescript/MyCustomGroupPreScript",
            "post": "typescript/MyCustomGroupPostScript"
        }
    ]
}

If no template is provided, the file will be empty.

Type-Inheritance

You can inherit types like this:

types:
    - name: parent
      suffix: .tsx
      path: components
      template: typescript/rfc.tmpl
    - name: parent/other
      path: othercomponents

The path will be relative to the parent type, so in this case the path of parent/other will be components/othercomponents. Parents can be any type defined wherever. They don't have to be in the same file.

Important: properties can be set to an empty string by overwriting it with CLEAR, so f.e. path: CLEAR will set the path to "" instead of "components"

Commands

Command	Function
list <scripts,templates,groups,types> <parent if scripts or templates>	Lists all available template/scripts, grouped by parent-folder, or groups and types. The parent is optional for listing templates/scripts.
<type or group> <name> <filename>	Creates the file(s) based on the type or group provided

Custom Files

Custom files like templates or scripts can be either placed in a .related folder near the config or in a related folder in your users config directory. Templates must be placed inside templates and scripts inside scripts. You can nest further.

Related will prioritize project-level files over config ones.

Templates

Templates are vanilla Golang templates. Data passed to templates:

data	read via
working directory	{{.workingDir}}
path	{{.path}}
name	{{.name}}
suffix	{{.suffix}}

Scripts

The following types are executable: lua scripts, javascript (via node), and binaries.

You can execute scripts by settings pre- and post-scripts in the type or group definition. Related will look for the script and execute it according to the lifecycle.

Passed command-line arguments:

1. current working directory
2. path
3. filename
4. suffix

Hints

1. A failure creating a single type won't result in the whole group-creation aborting. This means if f.e. you create a single type and later want to create a group but the type has already been created, it'll simply print out an error and continue creating the rest of the types.
2. A failures trying to execute a script will result in abortion of the type at that certain lifecycle. F.e. a failure in a script running pre-creation will stop the creation process there.