Lipsumator next
In 2015 I made Lipsumator, a customisable placeholder text generator. The project used new (at the time) JavaScript features like generators, so it relies on some tooling that has become pretty out of date.
I still use the lipsumator CLI command occasionally, and I've been intending
to modernise the project for a while. Quickly generating placeholder text from
your terminal and piping it to the clipboard is really useful.
Deno 1.0 has just been released, and Lipsumator seems like a great way to kick the tires. Deno includes script distribution, bundling, testing, and command line argument parsing tools. Everything I need for the next version of Lipsumator. I want to try it all out and see how it works.
Install
deno install -n lipsumator https://denopkg.com/juice49/lipsumator-next@1.0.0/cli.ts
Run
Generate three paragraphs
lipsumator --unit paragraphs --length 3
Generate three paragraphs with custom phrases
lipsumator --unit paragraphs --length 3 --phrase 'Maranta Leuconeura' --phrase 'Monstera Deliciosa' --phrase 'Urtica Dioica'
Generate ten sentences
lipsumator --unit sentences --length 10
Generate fifty words
lipsumator --unit words --length 50
Command line arguments
| Argument | Alias | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
unit |
u |
paragraphs |
Units of text to generate (words, sentences, or paragraphs). |
length |
l |
1 |
Quantity of text units to generate (Infinity for fun). |
phrase |
p |
Append a phrase to the phrase list. | |
unformatted |
false |
Emit each unit of text without formatting or punctuation. |
Future
Lipsumator itself can probably be an independent library that can run in any JS environment (like the browser and serverless functions). For now, I am combining the Deno CLI and the Lipsumator library. Let's split those apart in the future.
Todo
- Figure out Deno dependency lock files.
- Add Deno fmt.
- Add tests.
- Look for a project phrase list in the
cwd. Do we need to do anything with Deno permissions to make this work?