Boilerplate with Maki Module

TL;DR: Make flexible and consistent folder-based modular boilerplate with Maki Module :)

In programming there is boilerplate:

sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration.

Wikipedia

Since most things being made follow a pattern of things made before them, boilerplate gives a project consistency and sets the expectations of what you may find in other files, functions, classes, etc.

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Shell commands with Node

Running CLI Node scripts, capture the return value of a shell command:

const execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
const nodeVer = execSync('node -v', { encoding: 'utf8' });

Shell command reports in the CLI:

const execSync = require('child_process').execSync;
execSync('npm -g ls', { stdio: 'inherit' });