If you create plugins, I've created a awesome shell that will basically build out your entire plugin folder structure after asking you a couple questions. This is standalone, you don't need anything beyond what you should already have (npm/node). It has ability to create plugins in a variety of ways...
It will automatically create (and embed info inside them):
- License
- Readme
- Source code file(s)
- Demo
- tsconfig (if needed)
- package.json
- ignore files
- Additional support files
The plugin generator will asks you about 10 questions initially; but it is smart enough to save the common ones (like name, email, github) so that in the future it won't need to ask you again. In addition to being able to generate complete plugins for both JavaScript and TypeScript, it can also use your own "masters" of the files to generate the plugin if you have your own basic look/feel for all those files.
To use is very simple:
git clone https://github.com/NathanaelA/tns-template-plugin nativescript-somename cd nativescript-somename npm start
Answer some questions, and bam you have a full plugin all designed and ready for git and npm...
My goal is to be able to eventually do a tns plugin create somename or tns create nativescript-somename --template plugin and I have a enhancement report in the CLI repo to allow this; but until that time, you can do the three steps above...