Extending angular yeoman generator

Question

I basically want to create a custom yeoman generator that by default extends the standard generator-angular npm package. (by extending I mean giving access to all its sub generators)

Right now what I'm doing is that I have set up all angular sub generators by replicating all the subfolders structure and creating almost-empty js files to just handle the sub generator to the generator-angular package.

I wonder if there is a better way to do it, like specifying sub generator classes somewhere in the code or in a configuration file.

Answer 1

Yeoman generator a raw JavaScript prototyped object. Just extend them like you'd do it normally with any other JavaScript object.

var util = require('util'); // standard Node.js lib
var BaseGenerator = require('./base/generator');

function AngGenerator() {
    BaseGenerator.apply( this, arguments );
}
util.inherit( AppGenerator, BaseGenerator );

You can do the same with the Generator-Angular NPM module, and the same with any sub-generator.