Running generate locally

[kokujin]

Is it possible to locally run generate? I would like to avoid installing it gobally.

[tunnckoCore]

yes, it will work. you should access it wit node_modules/.bin/gen as usual, i believe. but it not make sense, its not so usable that way. by this i mean its uncomfortable

[jonschlinkert]

If you experience an issue with this, consider it a bug. I'd like for this to be supported. thanks for the issue

[jonschlinkert]

its not so usable that way. by this i mean its uncomfortable

I have an idea for this... we already support macros, like this:

$ gen --macro=foo bar baz qux

Which will allow you to run the bar baz qux generators with the $ gen foo command; So when $ gen foo is given, the command is replaced with $ gen bar baz qux.

But we might be able to prepend or append macros to the current command. Which would allow you to do something like this:

$ gen --macro.prepend=local node_modules/.bin/gen

Then, you could just do this:

$ gen local bar baz qux

Which would expand to:

$ gen node_modules/.bin/gen bar baz qux

Thoughts?

edit: I just updated the syntax of the prepend example

cc @doowb

[tunnckoCore]

Dont think so it's unnecessary, imho. maybe i can be some sort of detection like if task name contains / understand it as path ... hm. in anyway, if we have prepend macro and expand to that you shown, what next? i mean.. $ gen node_modules ... not looks good to me, in anyway it would have some sort of detection as i said.

unnecessary complexity, when i believe it works currently or at least it will be simple fix in the cli.

[jonschlinkert]

$ gen node_modules ...

why would you do that?

[tunnckoCore]

You said it that way.

Which would expand to:
$ gen node_modules/.bin/gen bar baz qux

in which i dont see sense, or not sense, but how this would make it better. And i cant see how it would work.

edit: And $ gen to work, you should have installed it globally, so it not make sense to have path to local modules. I dont know. But if user dont want it globally, i believe that users have one more choice using npm link generate?

[jonschlinkert]

Which would expand to:

sorry, I see what you mean. I thought of that macro idea and didn't really think it through enough before I wrote it out. Of course, you would still need a global generate to resolve the macro and use it.

Actually though, you could easily run a locally-installed generate like any other node library. You would just do:

// -- generator.js-- (or whatever you want)
var generate = require('generate');
var app = generate();

app.task('default', function(cb) {
  cb();
});

app.build('default', function(err) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
});

And run:

$ node generator

[tunnckoCore]

Yea exactly. Or as I mention in first comment $ node_modules/.bin/gen task task2 task3.
There are a few ways to do what @kokujin need, and we don't need to add some more complexity.