Developing

Subgenerators

The generator is split into several subgenerators which are called in sequence (and may be called by other generators). Read up on generator composability. These can be called individually:

$ yo politico-interactives:<subgenerator>

app

The main subgenerator called by defauly when you run the generator.

archie

Sets up an ArchieML integration for the project, if requested.

bundler-webpack

Sets up a webpack-based bundler system.

github

Generates a GitHub repository for the project, if requested.

gulp-common

Common gulp tasks shared across our generators.

gulp-statics

Gulp tasks for building static assets beyond JS and CSS (i.e. Nunjucks templates, image processing).

keys

Will write a set of keys encrypted with a passphrase to a path in the user’s directory, ~/.politico/interactives.json. Writes the following keys:

• AWS access key
• AWS secret key
• Google client ID
• Google client secret key
• GitHub personal access token
• Slack token
• Ngrok token

linters

Sets up ESLint linter config.

meta

Writes meta file.

new-page

Generates a new page in your templates folder.

passphrase

Uses your passphrase to try to decrypt keys file.

router

Router file for Express server.

spreadsheet

Sets up gulp tasks and context loading for using a Google Spreadsheet

styles

Writes scss directory.

templates

Writes HTML directories.