jondot/hygen

Health v2 · maintenance only

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5930 stars · 275 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hygen is a fast, scalable code generator that lives inside your project, letting you define local templates for scaffolding files, injecting into existing code, and running shell commands. It provides automatic CLI argument handling, prompts, and built-in scaffolds for creating new generators.

Use cases

• generate react components from templates
• scaffold new project files with a cli generator
• inject code into existing files automatically
• create custom project scaffolding per repo
• replace copy-pasting boilerplate code
• build interactive code generation prompts

When to choose

• you want project-local generators versioned with your code
• you need fast, lightweight scaffolding without heavy tooling
• you need to inject snippets into existing files, not just create new ones

When to avoid

• you need a full monorepo-wide or multi-language scaffolding system like Yeoman
• your templates require complex runtime dependencies beyond EJS-style rendering
• you want a GUI-based generator

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli templating developer-tools boilerplate developer-tools web-development cli cross-platform code-generation scaffolding project-templates ejs-templates command-line automation nodejs

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