Mix Generator—An alternative project generator for Mix

Generate skeleton directories and files for new Elixir projects of various styles. This is the same idea as mix new, mix nerves.new, mix phoenix.new, but all under one roof. It is also open ended—anyone can write a new template, and anyone can publish a template for others to use.

Install

$ mix archive.install hex mix_templates
$ mix archive.install hex mix_generator

Then you can install templates using:

$ mix template.install «template-name»

How do you find templates?

$ mix template.hex

Use

• $ mix gen --help | -h

  Show this information

• $ mix gen --list | -l

  Show locally installed templates. Same as mix template list

• $ mix gen «template-name» --help

  See specific information for «template-name»

• $ mix gen «template-name» «project-name» [ options ... ]

  Generate a new project called «project-name» using the template «template-name». This will be created in a directory with the same name as the project. By default, this directory will be created under the current directory. This can be overridden with the --into option, which specifies a new containing directory.

Options:

As well as --into «dir» each individual template may define its own set of options. For example, the project template will have its own options for creating supervised apps and so on.

Use mix gen «template-name» --help to see a list of these options.

Examples

$ mix gen project simple_app

$ mix gen project super_app --supervised --into ~/projects/