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📠 Easily update repos created with GitHub templates

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# 📠 Update Template

If you've created a repository using a template (see [Creating a repository from a template](https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template) on GitHub), it can be hard to "update" the template when new features are added, since it's not a fork. This package fixes that.

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## ⭐ Get started

### For repositories

If your repo is based on a template, you can update it using the URL of the original template repo:

```bash
npx update-template https://github.com/user/repo
```

### For templates

If you're building a template repository, add `update-template` as a dependency:

```bash
npm install update-template
```

Then, create a `.templaterc.json` file with a list of files you'd like to overwrite:

```json
{
  "files": ["src/**/*.js"]
}
```

Lastly, add an update script to your `package.json` with the URL of your repository:

```json
{
  "scripts": {
    "update-template": "update-template https://github.com/user/repo"
  }
}
```

When users want to update your template, they can run `npm run update-template`

If you want to sync your `package.json` and `package-lock.json` dependencies (without changing keys like the package name), you can add:

```json
{
  "npmDependencies": true
}
```

Similarly, npm scripts can be added:

```json
{
  "npmScripts": true
}
```

## 👩‍💻 Development

Build TypeScript:

```bash
npm run build
```

## 📄 License

<a href="https://koj.co">
 <img width="44" alt="Koj" src="https://kojcdn.com/v1598284251/website-v2/koj-github-footer_m089ze.svg">
 </a>


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