Pinion VS
Why Pinion
A fast and typesafe code generator
Pinion is a CLI toolkit that allows to create flexible, customizable and typesafe code generators in TypeScript. Creating and maintaining CLI tooling and generators can be a very time consuming task. Pinion helps with this by
- Putting generator templates as close to your project as possible
- TypeScript first to give you full flexibility over what your generators can do and how
- Using JavaScript template strings instead of hard to debug templating syntaxes like EJS or Mustache
- A functional programming approach that keeps your generators robust and easy to follow
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Feature | Pinion | Plop | Yeoman | Hygen |
---|---|---|---|---|
Templates | TypeScript | Handlebars | Handlebars, EJS, Jade | EJS |
Pattern | Functional | Imperative | Object Oriented | Yaml/EJS |
Typesafe | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Local templates | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Embeddable | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Composable | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
Pre-compilation | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
GPT automation | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |