What's the best way to add the entire contents of a folder?

[benhickson]

running command hygen-create add folder-name

Currently, subfolders are not being picked up.

If i run hygen-create add folder-name/* it picks up some subfolders, but important subfolders like .changeset are still ignored.

If i run hygen-create add folder-name/.* it picks up everything, but also picks up the parent directory, which is no good.

In the dist folder, i see a method

HygenCreate.add(files_and_dirs: any, recursive?: boolean, in_subdir?: boolean): void

But the CLI doesn't seem to expose a way to pass the recursive argument. If edit the dist to set the CLI's .add() call to pass true to the recursive argument, things work as I'd expect. I would use patch-package to do this, but patch-package doesn't work with pnpm, which we use.

[benhickson]

I ended up making patch-package work with PNPM by running npm install to temporarily create a package-lock.json file, with which I could create my patch in the "patches" folder. Once that patch is created, i deleted the package-lock.json and was able to run patch-package in postinstall successfully.

Of course due to the nature of PNPM, this modifies hygen-create for all projects on my machine, which is not ideal, but for now, it works.

So it still might be useful to expose the recursive argument, or if there is a better way to make sure all files are included, please let me know 🙂

[ronp001]

I'm not actively maintaining this utility at the moment, but please feel free to submit a PR and I'll take a look.

[benhickson]

@ronp001 gotcha, thanks!