create-reats-app

Create full-stack project templates (backend + frontend) directly in your current folder.

This CLI is inspired by create-react-app style workflows but designed for full projects.

Features

• Creates projects in process.cwd() (your current directory)
• Copies full template content (for example backend/ and frontend/)
• Supports multiple templates
• Works with both npx and global install
• No external runtime dependencies

Usage

Use with npx (recommended)

npx create-reats-app

List templates

npx create-reats-app --list

Create directly from a specific template

npx create-reats-app --template SIMS-NEP

Help

npx create-reats-app --help

Local development and testing

From this package root:

npm link

Then in any empty folder:

create-reats-app

Or select a template directly:

create-reats-app --template SIMS-NEP

Template structure

Put each project template as a folder inside templates/.

Example:

templates/
  SIMS-NEP/
    backend/
    frontend/
  ANOTHER-PROJECT/
    backend/
    frontend/

Whatever exists inside a template folder is copied into the current directory.

Add a new project template

1. Create a new folder inside templates/ (for example templates/MY-NEW-PROJECT).
2. Put a complete project structure inside it.
3. Publish a new package version.
4. Users can then choose it from the interactive menu or --template.

Publish to npm

1. Update version in package.json.
2. Log in:

npm login

3. Publish:

npm publish --access public

After publish, users can run:

npx create-reats-app

Notes

• The CLI does not generate inside node_modules.
• It creates files directly in the folder where the command is executed.
• If backend or frontend already exists, the CLI stops to avoid overwriting.