Workaround for Yeoman generators not producing .gitignore files due to Yeoman issue #1862

.gitignore

@@ -29,3 +29,10 @@ project.lock.json
 .vs/
 npm-debug.log
 /.build/
+
+# The templates can't contain their own .gitignore files, because Yeoman has strange default handling for
+# files with that name (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/1862). So, each template instead has a template_gitignore
+# file which gets renamed after the files are copied. And so any files that need to be excluded in the source
+# repo have to be excluded here.
+/templates/*/node_modules/
+/templates/*/wwwroot/dist/

templates/yeoman/src/build/build.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import * as _ from 'lodash';
 import * as mkdirp from 'mkdirp';
 import * as rimraf from 'rimraf';
 
-const textFileExtensions = ['.gitignore', '.config', '.cs', '.cshtml', 'Dockerfile', '.html', '.js', '.json', '.jsx', '.md', '.ts', '.tsx', '.xproj'];
+const textFileExtensions = ['.gitignore', 'template_gitignore', '.config', '.cs', '.cshtml', 'Dockerfile', '.html', '.js', '.json', '.jsx', '.md', '.ts', '.tsx', '.xproj'];
 
 const templates = {
     'angular-2': '../../templates/Angular2Spa/',
@@ -33,12 +33,15 @@ function isTextFile(filename: string): boolean {
 
 function writeFileEnsuringDirExists(root: string, filename: string, contents: string | Buffer) {
     let fullPath = path.join(root, filename);
-    mkdirp.sync(path.dirname(fullPath));    
+    mkdirp.sync(path.dirname(fullPath));
     fs.writeFileSync(fullPath, contents);
 }
 
-function listFilesExcludingGitignored(root: string): string[] {    
+function listFilesExcludingGitignored(root: string): string[] {
-    let gitIgnorePath = path.join(root, '.gitignore');
+    // Note that the gitignore files, prior to be written by the generator, are called 'template_gitignore'
+    // instead of '.gitignore'. This is a workaround for Yeoman doing strange stuff with .gitignore files
+    // (it renames them to .npmignore, which is not helpful).
+    let gitIgnorePath = path.join(root, 'template_gitignore');
     let gitignoreEvaluator = fs.existsSync(gitIgnorePath)
         ? gitignore.compile(fs.readFileSync(gitIgnorePath, 'utf8'))
         : { accepts: () => true };
@@ -49,36 +52,36 @@ function listFilesExcludingGitignored(root: string): string[] {
 function writeTemplate(sourceRoot: string, destRoot: string) {
     listFilesExcludingGitignored(sourceRoot).forEach(fn => {
         let sourceContent = fs.readFileSync(path.join(sourceRoot, fn));
-        
+
         // For text files, replace hardcoded values with template tags
         if (isTextFile(fn)) {
             let sourceText = sourceContent.toString('utf8');
             contentReplacements.forEach(replacement => {
                 sourceText = sourceText.replace(replacement.from, replacement.to);
             });
-            
+
             sourceContent = new Buffer(sourceText, 'utf8');
         }
-        
+
         // Also apply replacements in filenames
         filenameReplacements.forEach(replacement => {
             fn = fn.replace(replacement.from, replacement.to);
         });
-        
+
         writeFileEnsuringDirExists(destRoot, fn, sourceContent);
-    });    
+    });
 }
 
 function copyRecursive(sourceRoot: string, destRoot: string, matchGlob: string) {
     glob.sync(matchGlob, { cwd: sourceRoot, dot: true, nodir: true })
         .forEach(fn => {
-            const sourceContent = fs.readFileSync(path.join(sourceRoot, fn));        
+            const sourceContent = fs.readFileSync(path.join(sourceRoot, fn));
             writeFileEnsuringDirExists(destRoot, fn, sourceContent);
         });
 }
 
 const outputRoot = './generator-aspnetcore-spa';
-const outputTemplatesRoot = path.join(outputRoot, 'app/templates'); 
+const outputTemplatesRoot = path.join(outputRoot, 'app/templates');
 rimraf.sync(outputTemplatesRoot);
 
 // Copy template files

templates/yeoman/src/generator/app/index.ts

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class MyGenerator extends yeoman.Base {
 
     prompting() {
         const done = this.async();
-        
+
         this.prompt([{
             type: 'list',
             name: 'framework',
@@ -40,13 +40,18 @@ class MyGenerator extends yeoman.Base {
             done();
         });
     }
-    
+
     writing() {
         var templateRoot = this.templatePath(this._answers.framework);
         glob.sync('**/*', { cwd: templateRoot, dot: true, nodir: true }).forEach(fn => {
             // Token replacement in filenames
             let outputFn = fn.replace(/tokenreplace\-([^\.\/]*)/g, (substr, token) => this._answers[token]);
-            
+
+            // Rename template_gitignore to .gitignore in output
+            if (path.basename(fn) === 'template_gitignore') {
+                outputFn = path.join(path.dirname(fn), '.gitignore');
+            }
+
             this.fs.copyTpl(
                 path.join(templateRoot, fn),
                 this.destinationPath(outputFn),
@@ -54,7 +59,7 @@ class MyGenerator extends yeoman.Base {
             );
         });
     }
-    
+
     installingDeps() {
         this.installDependencies({
             npm: true,
@@ -62,7 +67,7 @@ class MyGenerator extends yeoman.Base {
             callback: () => {
                 this.spawnCommandSync('dotnet', ['restore']);
                 this.spawnCommandSync('./node_modules/.bin/webpack', ['--config', 'webpack.config.vendor.js']);
-                this.spawnCommandSync('./node_modules/.bin/webpack');                
+                this.spawnCommandSync('./node_modules/.bin/webpack');
             }
         });
     }

templates/yeoman/src/generator/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "generator-aspnetcore-spa",
-  "version": "0.1.5",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
   "description": "Single-Page App templates for ASP.NET Core",
   "author": "Microsoft",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",