New Typescript React Component CLI utility

• Simplified version based on a fork from Robert Orlinski, originally forked from the Josh Comeau package
• Simple, customizable utility for adding new React components to your project
• This project is a globally-installable CLI for adding new React components.

Features

• Simple CLI interface for adding functional components written in TypeScript.
• 2 editable templates models: with or without props
• 2 ways of inserting components:
  • As a new root component
  • As a sibling of an existing component
• Offers global config, which can be overridden on a project-by-project basis.
• Colourful terminal output

Install

yarn global add new-react-component-ts

Usage

cd into your project's directory, and try creating a new component:

new-react-component-ts Button

Your project will now have a new directory at src/components/Button. This directory has two files:

// `Button/index.ts`
export { default } from './Button';

// `Button/Button.tsx`

const Button = () => <div>Component without props</div>;

export default Button;

Now you can import your created component via import Button from 'components/Button'

Configuration

Configuration can be done through 3 different ways:

• Creating a global .new-react-component-ts-config.json in your home directory (~/.new-react-component-ts-config.json).
• Creating a local .new-react-component-ts-config.json in your project's root directory.
• Command-line arguments.

The resulting values are merged, with command-line values overwriting local values, and local values overwriting global ones.

Example of .new-react-component-ts-config.json configuraton file containing a custom component directory path:

{
  "dir": "src/components"
}

API Reference

Type

Control the type of component created:

• default for a functional component WITHOUT props.
• props for a functional component WITH base props markup.

Usage:

Command line: --type <value> or -t <value>

JSON config: { "type": <value> }

Directory

Controls the desired directory for the created component. Defaults to components

Usage:

Command line: --dir <value> or -d <value>

JSON config: { "dir": <value> }

Sibling of

Controls the file created as being a sibling component of an existing one

A sibling component is a common pattern that set multiples components belonging to the same feature. The file structure approach is well described by Josh Comeau. Eg:

• Button
• ButtonIcon
• ButtonGroup

Usage:

Command line: --siblingof <existingComponentName> or -s <existingComponentName>

Using this command will not create a new folder but inserting the new component in the provided component'name folder.

new-react-component-ts ButtonGroup -s Button

The index file will append the new sibling component reference as a named export into the proper index.ts file.

If the root component doesn't exist, the command will throw an error.

Prettier Config

Delegate settings to Prettier, so that your new component is formatted as you'd like. Defaults to Prettier defaults.

For a full list of options, see the Prettier docs.

Usage:

Command line: N/A (Prettier config is only controllable through JSON)

JSON config: { "prettierConfig": { "key": "value" } }

Example:

{
  "prettierConfig": {
    "singleQuote": true,
    "semi": false,
  }
}

Platform Support

This has only been tested in macOS.

Roadmap

Here are some improvement I plan to release sooner or later

• Implement proprer eslint configuration
• Refactor actions using async/await instead of promises