Quick Tip: Automatically generate the scaffolding for your next project
Producing the necessary files and configuration each time you start a new project setup could become tiresome. This is the case especially when you’re setting nothing different from a previous project.
In this quick tip, I’d like to show you a quicker alternative to getting a Dart project up and running using a package named stagehand.
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Stagehand is a Dart project scaffolding generator inspired by mainstream tools like Web Starter Kit and Yeoman.
Now assuming you have Dart version 2 already installed(brew install dart --devel), you can grab stagehand 3.0 by running the below command:
$ pub global activate stagehand
At this present time you could generate these templates:
console-full – A command-line application sample.
package-simple – A starting point for Dart libraries or applications.
server-shelf – A web server built using the shelf package.
web-angular – A web app with material design components.
web-simple – A web app that uses only core Dart libraries.
web-stagexl – A starting point for 2D animation and games.
So let’s say we wanted to generate the scaffolding for an AngularDart application. We can do this by running the commands below:
$ mkdir awesome_dart_project
$ cd awesome_dart_project
$ stagehand web-angular # or whichever template
And this gives us the below with further instructions in the output:
That’s it for today’s quick tip. Now how about you give it a go?
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