Local Slush generators?

[kokujin]

When would it be possible to use locally installed Slush generators?

[joakimbeng]

@kokujin thanks for the request! I'll add it in the next version then (v.1.1.0).

[Eruant]

You can alway create a local version and use npm link. You should then be able to call slush my-pkg without it being uploaded to npm.

[julianpinedayyz]

I have one running like Eruant suggests. I t works great. Still on the works but does the trick.

[joakimbeng]

I'm thinking of extracting the "find global or local modules by pattern"-functionality to a separate module, and then use it in Slush. Haven't come that far yet though :)

[ghost]

I expect the same behavior as gulp...both the generators and slush should be installed locally. The global slush should only look for the local slush. The solution that @Eruant suggests doesn't work the moment two projects need to use different versions of a generator. I was hoping local installation was what slush offered over yeoman. It is disappointing to see the same requirement of globals.

[andreasgrimm]

any news on this one?

[joakimbeng]

Until slush is looking for both local and global generators by default a good workaround is to install both slush and the generators locally, e.g: npm install --save-dev slush slush-angular.
By adding node_modules/.bin to your PATH calling slush will call the local module and also list the local generators.

[ghost]

@joakimbeng Thank you for pointing out that a local install does work from npm run scripts (which adds node_modules/.bin to PATH).

Global install npm i slush slush-angular -g:

$ slush -v
[slush] 1.1.1

$ slush
[slush] Installed generators
[slush] └── angular (0.4.5)

$ slush angular
[slush] Using slushfile /Users/tmpUser/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.9/lib/node_modules/slush-angular/slushfile.js
[18:16:11] Starting 'angular:default'...
[?] What do you want to name your AngularJS app? (tmp) 

Local install npm i [email protected] [email protected] --save-dev with "slush":"slush" in the scripts section of package.json:

$ npm run slush -- -v

> [email protected] slush /Users/tmpUser/tmp/tmp
> slush "-v"

[slush] 1.0.0

$ npm run slush

> [email protected] slush /Users/tmpUser/tmp/tmp
> slush

[slush] Installed generators
[slush] └── angular (0.4.0)

$ npm run slush angular

> [email protected] slush /Users/tmpUser/tmp/tmp
> slush "angular"

[slush] Using slushfile /Users/tmpUser/tmp/tmp/node_modules/slush-angular/slushfile.js
[18:06:24] Starting 'angular:default'...
[?] What do you want to name your AngularJS app? (tmp) 

I actually really like this behavior. I wonder if adding this strategy for local generators to the documentation would be enough.

NOTE: The version of npm shipped with node v0.10 doesn't support this behavior of passing arguments/options to run-scripts.