Extract templates

The extractTemplates action serves the common purpose of extracting files from the preset's template directory to the target directory.

Usage

Call the extractTemplates options in the handler function:

export default definePreset({
  // ...
  handler: async () => {
    await extractTemplates({
      from: 'vue'
    })
  }
})

Options

templates

Defines the path to the templates directory inside the preset's project. The default value is templates.

from

Defines the path to a file or a directory inside the template directory to copy. The default value is empty, so the whole template directory will be extracted.

to

Defines the path to a file or directory inside the target directory to copy to. The default value is empty, so the templates will be extracted to the root of the target directory.

flatten

Defines whether to ignore the structure of the template directory. If this is true, the structure of the template directory will be ignored and their content will be extracted inside the directory defined by to.

This option only works if from is a file and to is a directory.

extractDotFiles

Defines whether to extract files starting with a dot (.). The default is true. Note that files ending with .dotfile will be considered as dotfiles and will be extracted.

whenConflict

Defines the strategy to use when a file exists in the target directory. By default, files will be overriden (override) but they can be skipped with skip.

Examples

Extract the whole template directory

await extractTemplates()

Extract the default directory in the template directory to the target directory

await extractTemplates({
  from: 'default'
})

Extract the default directory in the template directory to the config directory inside the target directory

await extractTemplates({
  from: 'default',
  to: 'config'
})

Interface

interface ExtractTemplatesOptions {
  templates?: string
  from?: string
  to?: string
  flatten?: boolean
  extractDotFiles?: boolean
  whenConflict?: 'override' | 'skip'
}