@bluwy/giget-core

A JavaScript API to download a template from a git repository or URL. The code is largely based on giget (and includes its license), but with the following differences:

• Only the JavaScript API. The CLI and unrelated APIs are stripped off.
• Reduced dependencies to only 1 (modern-tar).
• Reduced input and output API surface.
• Removed custom registries and JSON template support.
• Removed GIGET_ special environment variables support.
• Removed automatic fetch proxy support.
• Supports fetching the default branch of a repository.
• Additional API utilities.
• Node >=18 and ESM only.

See Migrate from giget for how to migrate to @bluwy/giget-core.

Usage

The API is heavily documented in ./src/index.d.ts. Below shows some examples of using them:

downloadTemplate

Download a template with a given input string.

import { downloadTemplate } from '@bluwy/giget-core'

// Basic usage. Download from github repo.
const result = await downloadTemplate('unjs/template')
// info: { ... } - The template information parsed by providers
// dir: '...' - The directory where the template is downloaded to
// source: '...' - The source URL of the template (Prefix like `gh:` is stripped)

// Other input syntaxes
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template/subdir')
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template#main')
await downloadTemplate('gh:unjs/template')
await downloadTemplate('gitlab:unjs/template')
await downloadTemplate('bitbucket:unjs/template')
await downloadTemplate(
  'https://api.github.com/repos/unjs/template/tarball/main',
)

// Download to a specific directory (relative to cwd)
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { dir: 'my-project' })

// Download to a directory even if it has existing content
// (merges directories and replaces matching files)
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { force: true })

// Clean directory before downloading to it
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { force: 'clean' })

// Use offline cache only
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { offline: true })

// Use offline cache if available, otherwise download
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { offline: 'prefer' })

// Specify provider explicitly (if input has a provider prefix, it'll
// take precedence instead)
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { provider: 'gitlab' })

// Pass authentication token to access private repositories
// (handled by providers to pass as headers when downloading the tarball)
await downloadTemplate('unjs/template', { providerOptions: { auth: 'xxx' } })

verifyTemplate

Check whether the template is valid. Requires network access.

import { verifyTemplate } from '@bluwy/giget-core'

await verifyTemplate('unjs/template') // true
await verifyTemplate('unjs/template/subdir') // true
await verifyTemplate('unjs/template#main') // true
await verifyTemplate('gh:unjs/template') // true
await verifyTemplate('gitlab:unjs/template') // true
await verifyTemplate('bitbucket:unjs/template') // true
await verifyTemplate('https://api.github.com/repos/unjs/template/tarball/main') // true

await verifyTemplate('unjs/non-existent-repo') // false
await verifyTemplate('unjs/template/not-existent-subdir') // false
await verifyTemplate('unjs/template#not-existent-branch') // false

parseGitURI

Parse an input (e.g. 'owner/repo/templates/foo#main') into a GitInfo object. Useful for custom providers that need to parse the given input.

import { parseGitURI } from '@bluwy/giget-core'

parseGitURI('owner/repo') // { repo: 'owner/repo', subdir: '/' }
parseGitURI('owner/repo/subdir') // { repo: 'owner/repo', subdir: '/subdir' }
parseGitURI('owner/repo#main') // { repo: 'owner/repo', subdir: '/', ref: 'main' }
parseGitURI('owner/repo/subdir#main') // { repo: 'owner/repo', subdir: '/subdir', ref: 'main' }

Migrate from giget

giget exports a downloadTemplate programmatic API as well. If you have set any options, you may need to adjust them as below:

• The forceClean option is merged as force: 'clean'.
• The preferOffline option is merged as offline: 'prefer'.
• The registry option is removed. You can no longer download templates hosted from the giget repo. Pass the direct tarball URL or git repo instead.
• The install and silent options used for installing dependencies is removed. You should manually install the dependencies yourself. giget uses nypm under the hood.
• The auth option is moved to providerOptions.auth.
• The TemplateProvider and TemplateInfo interfaces used by the providers option is slightly changed.
  • TemplateProvider: The function must return a TemplateInfo instead of null. If it fails to handle something, it should try a helpful error.
  • TemplateInfo: It no longer allows returning arbitrary keys in the object.
• The returned object has the TemplateInfo on the info property instead of spreading on the returned object.
• GIGET_ environment variables support is removed. They should be passed as explicit options instead.
• Automatic fetch proxy support is removed. To re-enable, use Node.js v22.21.0 and above, and set NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 in your environment variables. See the Node.js docs for more information.

Attribution

As mentioned above, this project is based heavily on giget! Thanks @pi0 for the original work and battle-testing it.

In the future, I hope the code here can be merged back to giget, perhaps as a giget-core library, and have the giget CLI as a wrapper library.

License

MIT