Yeoman generator for swagger-based express application.
See also:
Install yeoman's yo
if you haven't already:
$ npm install -g yo
Install generator-swagapi
:
$ npm install -g generator-swagapi
Create a project:
$ yo swagapi
--apiPath
- specify the path to the swagger document.--database
- specify the name of MongoDB instance--dry-run
- show what files would be generated without making any changes
- Install Virtualbox
- Install Vagrant
Start the VM:
vagrant up
Connect to the VM:
vagrant ssh
After making some changes within your IDE (sync your code to VM):
vagrant rsync
When using the docker run command below, the vagrant rsync will result in the changes being immediately available to the running container.
The official images only provide the base installation of node and npm. To be useful you need a non-root user to install anything using npm install -g
otherwise you will hit the dreaded EACCESS error.
Each file simply adds a new user appy
that has access to install files into the global distribution (/usr/local/lib/node_modules
) using npm install -g
and ownership of the application directory named /app
. The custom group that nodejs selects on install has a group id of 500
, and is named nodejs
within the image for easy reference and assignment to our user appy
.
The run command:
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app/generator-swagapi kenjones/generator-swagapi /bin/bash
Do not forget to include generator-swagapi
as part of the pathname otherwise yeoman will not pick up this as a generator and all testing will fail. See next block for more information.
From the yeoman documentation:
First, create a folder within which you'll write your generator. This folder must be named generator-name (where name is the name of your generator). This is important, as Yeoman relies on the file system to find available generators.
Basically the command will give you a command prompt within the running docker container with your current directory mounted inside at the /app
location. Therefore when you do npm install
the corresponding node_modules
directory will continue to exist once you exit the container.
For more information on docker run read the following: https://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/run/
Inspired by krakenjs/generator-swaggerize.