Implementing --appPath option to scaffold into custom directory

[revathskumar]

Helps user to scaffold application into custom directory instead of "app"

yo backbone --appPath=public

This will scaffold application into public directory.
This uses .yo-rc.json for storing appPath config.
https://twitter.com/jayjog/status/399971817646874624

[revathskumar]

@passy @sindresorhus @SBoudrias @addyosmani

[addyosmani]

I understand what's being done with .yo-rc.json here, but I'm trying to understand the use-case better. Would this mostly be used for when you're skipping all prompts?

[revathskumar]

That's mainly for sub generators.

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I understand what's being done with .yo-rc.json here, but I'm trying to
understand the use-case better. Would this mostly be used for when you're
skipping all prompts?

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[eddiemonge]

this.appPath = this.options.appPath || this.appPath;
instead of lines 15 and 17

[revathskumar]

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[revathskumar]

@addyosmani .yo-rc.json is not used to skip the prompts, rather we use to share options like appPath, coffee, testTemplate etc between generator and subgenerator.

Now when yo backbone --appPath=public generates scaffolds into public directory. So later when we use subgenerator yo backbone:model name, the model subgenerator will read appPath from .yo-rc.json and generated to appropriate directory.

Currently we are not using prompts for sub-generators.

I was working on saving other options to .yo-rc.json #177

[sindresorhus]

this is moot. caching is only available for private instances.

[revathskumar]

ok will remove the commit.