Using yeoman in non cli environment

In generator v0.15 a new abstraction layer has been introduced to allow IDE, code editor and the like to easily integrate yeoman: the Adapter.

It's the object responsible for handling all the interaction with the user, if you want to provide a different interaction model from the classical command line, you have to write your own Adapter.

Methods

#prompt

It provides the question-answer functionality (for instance, when you start yo, a set of possible actions is prompted to the user). It's signature and behavior follows these of SBoudrias/Inquirer.js. When a generators call this.prompt, the decision is delegated to the adapter

#diff

Called internally when a conflict is encountered and the user decide to provide a diff between the old and the new file (strings passed as aguments).

#log

It's both a function and an object intended for generic output. See lib/util/log.js for the complete list of methods to provide.

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If none provided, the environment instantiates a new TerminalAdapter, used internally to provide console-based I/O;

##Usage Example

If you want to run yeoman programmatically, you'll have to first add yeoman-generator (>=0.15) to your package.json. You can then pass your Adapter implementation to the factory:

var myAwesomeAdapter = require('./myAdapter');
var generatorFactory = require('yeoman-generator');

//Create a new Environment object which will use your adapter
var env = generatorFactory(null /* default arg */, null /* default opt */, myAwesomeAdapter);

//...
//register/lookup generators
//...

//run the angular generator
env.run('angular', opt);