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Installing my cli tool globally doesn't include other folders

I am building a cli tool and it has a folder named template which contains all the js templates required to create certain files. I install my tool globally with npm install -g.

I created a separate directory to test this tool but half way through running the tool (when its time to create the files from templates) it give the error Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './bin/templates/_app.ejs'

This is in my package.json:

{
  "name": "cliproject",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "type": "module",
  "main": "./bin/index.js",
  "bin": {
    "create": "bin/index.js"
  },
  "publishConfig": {
    "access": "public"
  },
  ...other code
}

and this is my folder structure (also someone please tell me how do you guys add the tree structure here):

>bin
| >templates
| | _app.ejs
| | _styles.ejs
| | _index.ejs
|
| index.js
| utils.js
Solution

  • The issue here was I was using local paths like:

    renderTemplate("./bin/templates/_app.js");

    instead you should be passing paths, including the current working directory (process.cwd())

    renderTemplate(path.join(cwd, "bin/templates/_app.js"));