为什么您不认识私人的约曼发电机？

Question

I have a private yeoman generator on my gitlab.

After using npm install -g [url_to_my_generator] , I found that yo can't recognize it.

But when I clone it to local and then use npm install && npm link , it works fine and appears in "Available Generators".

Here is my generator's package.json

{
  "name": "generator-my-generator",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "xxx",
  "keywords": [
    "yeoman-generator",
    "generator"
  ],
  "author": {
    "name": "xxx",
    "email": "xxx",
    "url": "xxx"
  },
  "main": "app/index.js",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+ssh://xxx/generator-my-generator.git"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "yeoman-generator": "^0.19.0",
    "chalk": "^1.0.0",
    "yosay": "^1.0.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "files": [
    "app"
  ]
}

And my environments:

OS: Windows 7
yo: 1.4.7
npm: 2.13.5

Thank you for helping.

Answer 1

Two troubleshooting techniques:

1. Run yo doctor . That's your best friend for any issue with Yeoman.
2. Make sure the files property of your package.json includes your generators.