What's the recommended way to copy multiple dotfiles with yeoman?

Question

I am building a yeoman generator for a fairly typical node app:

/ |--package.json |--.gitignore |--.travis.yml |--README.md |--app/     |--index.js     |--models     |--views     |--controllers 

In the templates folder of my yeoman generator, I have to rename the dotfiles (and the package.json) to prevent them from being processed as part of the generator:

templates/  |--_package.json  |--_gitignore  |--_travis.yml  |--README.md  |--app/      |--index.js      |--models      |--views      |--controllers 

I see a lot of generators that copy dotfiles individually manually:

this.copy('_package.json', 'package.json') this.copy('_gitignore', '.gitignore') this.copy('_gitattributes', '.gitattributes') 

I think it's a pain to manually change my generator code when I add new template files. I would like to automatically copy all files in the /templates folder, and rename the ones that are prefixed with _.

What's the best way to do this?

If I were to describe my intention in imaginary regex, this is what it would look like:

this.copy(/^_(.*)/, '.$1') ths.copy(/^[^_]/) 

EDIT This is the best I can manage:

this.expandFiles('**', { cwd: this.sourceRoot() }).map(function() {     this.copy file, file.replace(/^_/, '.') }, this); 

Answer 1

I found this question through Google as I was looking for the solution, and then I figured it out myself.

Using the new fs API, you can use globs!

// Copy all non-dotfiles this.fs.copy(   this.templatePath('static/**/*'),   this.destinationRoot() );  // Copy all dotfiles this.fs.copy(   this.templatePath('static/.*'),   this.destinationRoot() ); 

Answer 2

Adding to @callumacrae 's answer: you can also define dot: true in the globOptions of copy(). That way a /** glob will include dotfiles. Example:

this.fs.copy(   this.templatePath('files/**'),   this.destinationPath('client'),   { globOptions: { dot: true } } ); 

A list of available Glob options can be found in the README of node-glob.