vowel 0.7.6 → 0.7.8

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package/bin.js CHANGED
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function wait(ms) {
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  }
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  import init from "./index.js"
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- import { shouldClear, normalizeDomain, wrongFolderWarning, writeAgentFiles } from "./cli.js"
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+ import { shouldClear, wrongFolderWarning, writeSite, hasInitAnswers, initProblem, defaultsNotes, nameFromFolder } from "./cli.js"
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  /**
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  * A prompt's answer - or, when the author pressed Ctrl-C or Escape, a
@@ -93,7 +93,13 @@ async function exists(filePath) {
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  }
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  }
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- async function wizard() {
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+ /**
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+ * The setup wizard's questions; it writes through writeSite() (cli.js),
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+ * as `vowel init` with flags does, so the two make the same files.
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+ * @param {{ launch?: boolean }} [options] - false for `vowel init`,
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+ * which sets up and exits rather than starting the preview
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+ */
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+ async function wizard({ launch = true } = {}) {
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  {
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  box(`Welcome!\n\nVowel is a static blog generator. It bundles markdown into HTML.`)
@@ -119,17 +125,14 @@ The few configurations that Vowel uses live in a 'settings.md' file at the root
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  }))
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  if (proceed) {
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- const frontmatter = [`---`]
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-
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  box(`Change these configurations by editing 'settings.md'.`)
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+ // The folder's name, shown and editable before it is written.
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  const websiteName = answer(await text({
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  message: "Website name",
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- placeholder: "My Cool Website"
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+ initialValue: nameFromFolder(process.cwd(), os.homedir())
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  }))
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- frontmatter.push(`name: ${websiteName}`)
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-
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  box(`Vowel comes loaded with themes. You can override these themes by writing styles in a 'styles.css' file at the root of your project.`)
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  const theme = answer(await select({
@@ -158,10 +161,6 @@ The few configurations that Vowel uses live in a 'settings.md' file at the root
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  ]
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  }))
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- if (theme) {
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- frontmatter.push(`theme: ${theme}`)
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- }
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-
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  box(`To publish a sitemap and RSS feed, provide the domain that you plan to use.`)
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  const domain = answer(await text({
@@ -169,13 +168,6 @@ The few configurations that Vowel uses live in a 'settings.md' file at the root
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  placeholder: "thebomb.com"
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  }))
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- // As pasted from a browser: https://Example.com/ is example.com.
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- const siteDomain = normalizeDomain(domain)
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-
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- if (siteDomain) {
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- frontmatter.push(`domain: ${siteDomain}`)
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- }
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-
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  box(`To credit an author on your RSS feed, provide an author.`)
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  const author = answer(await text({
@@ -183,10 +175,6 @@ The few configurations that Vowel uses live in a 'settings.md' file at the root
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  placeholder: "George Constanza"
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  }))
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- if (author) {
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- frontmatter.push(`author: ${author}`)
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- }
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-
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  box(`Markdown files are pages. Filenames are breadcrumbs. Folders are website sections. 'home.md' is your homepage.`)
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  const homepage = answer(await confirm({
@@ -214,26 +202,27 @@ The few configurations that Vowel uses live in a 'settings.md' file at the root
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  spin.start('Setting up')
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- frontmatter.push(`---`)
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-
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- const settings = frontmatter.join(`\n`)
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-
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- const settingsExists = await exists("settings.md")
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-
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- if (!settingsExists) {
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- await fs.writeFile("settings.md", settings, "utf-8")
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+ const answers = {
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+ name: websiteName,
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+ theme,
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+ domain,
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+ author,
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+ home: homepage,
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+ slogan,
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+ agents: agentsFile,
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+ skill
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  }
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+ const { written } = await writeSite(process.cwd(), answers)
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- const homeExists = await exists("home.md")
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-
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- if (homepage && !homeExists) {
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- const homeFrontmatter = slogan ? `---\nslogan: ${slogan}\n---\n` : ""
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- await fs.writeFile("home.md", `${homeFrontmatter}# Home\n\nWelcome home!`, "utf-8")
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- }
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+ spin.clear()
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- await writeAgentFiles(process.cwd(), { agents: agentsFile, skill })
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+ const notes = defaultsNotes(answers, written)
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+ if (notes.length) note(notes.join("\n"))
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- spin.clear()
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+ if (!launch) {
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+ outro("Set up. Run `vowel` to preview the site, and `vowel check` to check it.")
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+ return
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+ }
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  answer(await select({
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  message: "Ready to go. Vowel will now launch your website.",
@@ -285,6 +274,64 @@ async function runCLICommand(name, payloadJSON) {
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  }
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  }
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+ /**
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+ * `vowel init`: sets up a site in this folder and exits, rather than
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+ * starting the preview. With flags, which answer the wizard's questions
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+ * one each, it asks nothing, so an agent can make a site in one command;
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+ * with none, in a terminal, it runs the wizard. Nothing that exists is
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+ * replaced. A home folder, or a folder of other things, is refused
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+ * without a terminal to ask in, unless `--force`.
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+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} args
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+ */
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+ async function runInit(args) {
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+ const problem = initProblem(args)
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+ if (problem) {
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+ console.error(problem)
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+ process.exitCode = 1
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+ return
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+ }
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+
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+ const interactive = Boolean(process.stdin.isTTY && process.stdout.isTTY)
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+ const asking = interactive && !hasInitAnswers(args)
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+ const folder = process.cwd()
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+
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+ if (!args.force && !(await exists("settings.md"))) {
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+ const entries = await fs.readdir(".")
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+ const warning = wrongFolderWarning(entries, { folder, home: folder === os.homedir() })
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+ if (warning && !asking) {
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+ console.error(`vowel init: ${warning.replace(/ Set up a site here anyway\?$/, "")} Pass --force to set up a site here anyway.`)
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+ process.exitCode = 1
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+ return
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+ }
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+ if (warning && !answer(await confirm({ message: warning, initialValue: false }))) {
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+ cancel("Run vowel init inside a new, empty folder, or in your markdown's folder.")
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+ return
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+ }
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+ }
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+
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+ if (asking) {
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+ await wizard({ launch: false })
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+ return
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+ }
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+
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+ const on = (value) => value === true || value === "true"
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+ const answers = {
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+ name: args.name,
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+ theme: args.theme,
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+ domain: args.domain,
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+ author: args.author,
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+ slogan: args.slogan,
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+ home: !(args.home === false || args.home === "false"),
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+ agents: on(args.agents),
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+ skill: on(args.skill)
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+ }
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+ const { written, kept } = await writeSite(folder, answers)
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+ if (written.length) console.info(`Wrote ${written.join(", ")}.`)
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+ if (kept.length) console.info(`Kept ${kept.join(", ")}, which already existed.`)
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+ defaultsNotes(answers, written).forEach(line => console.info(line))
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+ console.info("Run `vowel` to preview the site, and `vowel check` to check it.")
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+ }
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+
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  async function main() {
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  const args = parse(process.argv.slice(2))
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@@ -293,8 +340,8 @@ async function main() {
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  return
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  }
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- // `vowel export <folder>` and `vowel check`: two commands spelled as
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- // words rather than --command/--payload. Any other word is a mistake,
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+ // `vowel export <folder>`, `vowel check` and `vowel init`: commands
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+ // spelled as words rather than --command/--payload. Any other word is a mistake,
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  // said so: it used to be ignored and start the preview, which never
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  // exits - under CI, a job that hung until it timed out.
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  const word = args._?.[0]
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  await runCLICommand("check")
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  return
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  }
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+ if (word === "init") {
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+ await runInit(args)
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+ return
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+ }
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  if (word !== undefined) {
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- console.error(`vowel: unknown command "${word}". The words are \`vowel export <folder>\` and \`vowel check\`; any other command is \`vowel --command <name>\`.`)
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+ console.error(`vowel: unknown command "${word}". The words are \`vowel init\`, \`vowel export <folder>\` and \`vowel check\`; any other command is \`vowel --command <name>\`.`)
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  process.exitCode = 1
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  return
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  }
package/cli.js CHANGED
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
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- import { copyFile, mkdir, constants } from "node:fs/promises"
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+ import { copyFile, mkdir, writeFile, constants } from "node:fs/promises"
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  import path from "node:path"
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+ import yaml from "yaml"
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  /**
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  * Decisions the CLI makes from its arguments, kept out of bin.js so they
@@ -89,3 +90,182 @@ export async function writeAgentFiles(folder, wanted) {
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  const written = await Promise.all(chosen.map(([, { from, to }]) => copyNew(from, path.join(folder, to))))
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  return written.filter(file => file).map(file => path.relative(folder, file))
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  }
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+ /** The themes the wizard and `vowel init --theme` offer. */
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+ export const THEMES = ["default", "typography", "reset"]
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+
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+ /** `vowel init`'s flags: one per wizard question, and `--force`. */
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+ const INIT_FLAGS = ["name", "theme", "domain", "author", "home", "slogan", "agents", "skill", "force"]
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+
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+ /**
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+ * What a new site starts with: the wizard's answers, or `vowel init`'s
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+ * flags, which are the same questions.
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+ * @typedef {object} SiteAnswers
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+ * @property {string} [name] - the site's name
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+ * @property {string} [theme] - one of THEMES
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+ * @property {string} [domain] - as typed or pasted; normalized here
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+ * @property {string} [author] - the feed's author
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+ * @property {boolean} [home] - write a home.md; true unless false
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+ * @property {string} [slogan] - the homepage's
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+ * @property {boolean} [agents] - write AGENTS.md
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+ * @property {boolean} [skill] - copy the Vowel skill into .claude/skills
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+ */
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+
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+ /**
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+ * A frontmatter block from the values that are set. YAML-quoted where a
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+ * value needs it: a name with a colon in it used to break settings.md.
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+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} values
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+ */
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+ function frontmatterBlock(values) {
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+ const set = Object.entries(values).filter(([, value]) => value !== undefined && value !== null && value !== "")
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+ if (!set.length) return "---\n---\n"
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+ return `---\n${yaml.stringify(Object.fromEntries(set))}---\n`
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+ }
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+
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+ /** A new site's name when it was given none. */
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+ export const DEFAULT_NAME = "Site Name"
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+
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+ /**
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+ * What an empty key in a new settings.md is for, as a comment beside it.
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+ * An empty key is not set (frontmatter.js), so it shows the author the
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+ * setting without pretending to know its value.
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+ */
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+ const EMPTY_KEY_HINTS = {
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+ domain: "like example.com, for the feed, the sitemap and llms.txt",
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+ author: "your name, for the feed"
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * settings.md's frontmatter: a value as YAML, an empty key (null) with
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+ * its hint, nothing for undefined.
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+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} values
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+ */
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+ function settingsBlock(values) {
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+ const lines = Object.entries(values)
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+ .filter(([, value]) => value !== undefined)
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+ .map(([key, value]) => value === null ? `${key}: # ${EMPTY_KEY_HINTS[key]}\n` : yaml.stringify({ [key]: value }))
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+ return `---\n${lines.join("")}---\n`
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * The text of a new site's own files: settings.md, and home.md unless
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+ * `home` is false. What wasn't answered gets a default: the name
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+ * DEFAULT_NAME, the default theme, and an empty `domain:` and `author:`
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+ * to fill in. The wizard's "None" theme (`theme: false`) writes no theme.
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+ * @param {SiteAnswers} answers
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+ * @returns {{ path: string, text: string }[]}
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+ */
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+ export function siteFiles(answers) {
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+ const text = (value) => value === undefined || value === null || value === false ? undefined : String(value).trim()
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+ const theme = answers.theme === false ? undefined : text(answers.theme)?.toLowerCase() || "default"
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+ const settings = settingsBlock({
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+ name: text(answers.name) || DEFAULT_NAME,
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+ theme,
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+ domain: normalizeDomain(text(answers.domain)) || null,
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+ author: text(answers.author) || null
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+ })
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+ const slogan = text(answers.slogan)
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+ const home = `${slogan ? frontmatterBlock({ slogan }) : ""}# Home\n\nWelcome home!\n`
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+ return [
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+ { path: "settings.md", text: settings },
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+ ...(answers.home === false ? [] : [{ path: "home.md", text: home }])
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+ ]
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * What to tell the person about the defaults a new settings.md got,
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+ * once it has been written: the placeholder name, and the domain left
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+ * to fill in, which `vowel check` warns about until it is.
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+ * @param {SiteAnswers} answers
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+ * @param {string[]} written - what writeSite() wrote
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+ * @returns {string[]}
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+ */
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+ export function defaultsNotes(answers, written) {
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+ if (!written.includes("settings.md")) return []
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+ const named = String(answers.name ?? "").trim()
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+ const domain = normalizeDomain(String(answers.domain ?? "").trim())
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+ return [
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+ ...(named ? [] : [`Named the site "${DEFAULT_NAME}". Change \`name:\` in settings.md.`]),
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+ ...(domain ? [] : ["Left `domain:` in settings.md empty. Set it to the site's domain for a feed and a sitemap, or remove it if the site has none."])
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+ ]
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * The name the wizard suggests: the folder's, in title case
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+ * (`my-blog` is "My Blog"), or DEFAULT_NAME for a folder with no name
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+ * of its own to give, the file system's root or the home folder, whose
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+ * name is a person's user name. The wizard shows it before writing it,
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+ * so a folder's private name is never published unseen; `vowel init`
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+ * without `--name` uses DEFAULT_NAME (per Sam, Nov 6).
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+ * @param {string} folder - absolute
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+ * @param {string} home - the home folder
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+ */
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+ export function nameFromFolder(folder, home) {
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+ if (path.resolve(folder) === path.resolve(home)) return DEFAULT_NAME
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+ const words = path.basename(path.resolve(folder)).split(/[-_\s]+/).filter(Boolean)
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+ if (!words.length) return DEFAULT_NAME
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+ return words.map(word => word[0].toUpperCase() + word.slice(1)).join(" ")
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Writes a file only where there is none.
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+ * @param {string} file
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+ * @param {string} text
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+ * @returns {Promise<boolean>} whether it was written
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+ */
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+ async function writeNew(file, text) {
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+ try {
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+ await writeFile(file, text, { encoding: "utf-8", flag: "wx" })
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+ return true
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+ } catch (error) {
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+ if (error.code === "EEXIST") return false
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+ throw error
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+ }
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * own files, then the agent files asked for. Nothing that exists is
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+ * replaced, so it is safe in a folder that is a site already: `vowel
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+ * init --agents` there adds AGENTS.md and nothing else.
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+ * @param {string} folder
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+ * @param {SiteAnswers} answers
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+ * @returns {Promise<{ written: string[], kept: string[] }>} project-relative
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+ */
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+ export async function writeSite(folder, answers) {
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+ const files = siteFiles(answers)
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+ const wroteFiles = await Promise.all(files.map(file => writeNew(path.join(folder, file.path), file.text)))
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+ const agents = await writeAgentFiles(folder, answers)
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+ const askedAgents = Object.entries(AGENT_FILES).filter(([key]) => answers[key]).map(([, { to }]) => to)
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+ return {
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+ written: [...files.filter((_, index) => wroteFiles[index]).map(file => file.path), ...agents],
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+ kept: [...files.filter((_, index) => !wroteFiles[index]).map(file => file.path), ...askedAgents.filter(file => !agents.includes(file))]
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+ }
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * wizard: any flag but `--force`.
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+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} args - as @bomb.sh/args parses them
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+ */
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+ export function hasInitAnswers(args) {
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+ return INIT_FLAGS.some(flag => flag !== "force" && args[flag] !== undefined)
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+ }
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+ /**
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+ * undefined. A misspelled flag is an error rather than ignored: an
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+ * agent's typo would otherwise make a site without what it asked for.
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+ * @param {Record<string, unknown>} args
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+ * @param {string[]} [globalFlags] - flags every launch accepts
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+ * @returns {string | undefined}
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+ */
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+ export function initProblem(args, globalFlags = ["logging"]) {
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+ const known = [...INIT_FLAGS, ...globalFlags, "_"]
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+ const unknown = Object.keys(args).filter(key => !known.includes(key))
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+ if (unknown.length) return `vowel init: unknown option ${unknown.map(key => `--${key}`).join(", ")}. The options are ${INIT_FLAGS.map(flag => `--${flag}`).join(", ")}.`
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+ if (args.theme !== undefined && !THEMES.includes(String(args.theme).toLowerCase())) {
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+ return `vowel init: --theme must be ${THEMES.join(", ")}; got ${JSON.stringify(args.theme)}.`
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+ }
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+ return undefined
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+ }
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+ * treats as it treats a missing key. Kept, not dropped, because the
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+ * two differ: an empty key in a subfolder's settings.md means "none
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+ * here" and hides its parent's value (`lastNonNull` stops at it), and
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+ * an empty `domain:` is a placeholder the root settings.md warns
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+ * about (per Sam, Nov 6). `false` for a text key is empty too
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+ * (`domain: false` was the domain "false"), except that `domain:
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+ // made `domain: true` the domain "true".
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+ if (value === false) return { value: null }
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+ if (value === true) return { value: undefined, problem: "expected text, got true" }
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+ * a new object; keys coerced away are absent from it, and an empty key
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+ * is null.
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