Using our Yeoman Generator is the best and fastest way to get Kickoff each time you want to start a new project. It will ask you a few questions and then build a custom version of Kickoff for your needs.

What is Yeoman?

Yeoman helps you kickstart new projects, prescribing best practices and tools to help you stay productive. Yeoman is open-source but is maintained by a number of people from Google.

We have created a generator that once installed, allows you to create a custom build of Kickoff whenever you need.

Installation

Install Yeoman

If you haven’t installed Yeoman yet, run this command in your terminal:

npm install -g yo

Install the generator

To install generator-kickoff from npm, run:

npm install -g generator-kickoff

Install them both at the same time

npm install -g yo generator-kickoff

Usage

Once everything is installed, run the generator using the below command.

yo kickoff

Sub-commands

Generator sub-commands are especially useful once the project is up and running. Our generator includes some helpful sub-commands to speed up the addition of sass and javascript modules.

Sass

Add new Sass component

Run yo kickoff:sass:component name where name is the name of the component you want to add. This new file will be added to the /scss/components directory and an @import for it will be added to kickoff.scss

$ yo kickoff:sass:component name
# creates /scss/components/_name.scss

Add new Sass view

Run yo kickoff:sass:view name where name is the name of the view you want to add. This new file will be added to the /scss/views directory and an @import for it will be added to kickoff.scss

$ yo kickoff:sass:view name
# creates /scss/views/_name.scss

Javascript

Add new Javascript module

Run yo kickoff:js:module name where name is the name of the component you want to add. This new file will be added to the /js/modules directory.

$ yo kickoff:js:module name
# creates /js/modules/name.js

Add new Javascript util

Run yo kickoff:js:util name where name is the name of the view you want to add. This new file will be added to the /js/utils directory.

$ yo kickoff:js:util name
# creates /js/utils/name.js

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