About Chic.js

Chic.js is a rapid prototyping tool for Sveltekit, created and maintained by Mark Schellhas.
Use this CLI to scaffold your app quickly, and focus on the fun stuff.

📺 Watch a walkthrough video by Svelte Safari here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdUtR4GYtE

Getting started

Installation

npm install -g chic.js

Usage

1. Create a new Sveltekit app with chic new MyApp
2. Change into your app directory with cd MyApp
3. Use the chic make command to scaffold views, models, routes & API endpoints for a new resource. For example: chic make Book title:string author:string about:text, will create a Book resource with all the views, model and controllers need for CRUD operations on your resource.
4. Run the development server with chic s
5. And voila! You have a working app with a Book resource.

Routes

Chic.js adds a /routes endpoint to your app, which shows all the routes in your app - for example API endpoints for your resources created by Chic.js. This is useful for debugging and development. To hide the /routes endpoint in production, set CHIC_DEBUG=OFF in your .env file.

Chic commands

| Command | Description | | --- | --- | | chic --help | Displays help information about Chic.js commands | | chic --version | Displays the current version of Chic.js | | chic new GuitarStore | Creates a new Sveltekit app, called GuitarStore | | chic new GuitarStore styled with tailwind | Creates a new Sveltekit app, called GuitarStore, with Tailwind CSS styling framework. Options currently available: bootstrap, tailwind and bulma | | chic make Guitar name:string type:string description:text | Creates pages, API routes, model and form components for CRUD operations on the Guitar resource | | chic add /about | Creates an "About" page in the src/routes directory | | chic add ContactForm | Creates a ContactForm.svelte component in the src/lib/components directory | | chic sitemap [domain name] | Creates a sitemap (note: build your project locally first before running this command) | | chic s | Runs the development server | | chic debug status | Shows the status of CHIC_DEBUG in your .env file | | chic debug ON | Sets CHIC_DEBUG value to ON. When ON, the routes endpoint will be active | | chic debug OFF | Sets CHIC_DEBUG value to OFF. When OFF, the routes endpoint will be inactive |

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