Getting Started

Getting started with Namerer is easy. You just need to make sure you have the right prerequisites installed, and then pull down the NPM package.

Prerequisites

Namerer requires Node.js 4.0.0 or greater to be installed, but you may as well just grab the latest version because that is what we build and test against.

Installation

Once you have Node.js installed and configured on your system, you just need to pull down and install the namerer NPM package using the following command:

npm install -g namerer

This will install the namerer package globally so that you can issue commands anywhere in the shell. Alternatively you can install it locally which is especially useful if you want to use it as a library for your own project.

Hello World

Once you’ve installed Namerer, it is time for a simple hello world example to make sure everything is working. The simplest command in Namerer is a basic generate command, invoked as follows:

$ namerer generate

This will output a single string which should be eight characters long comprised of characters from the alphabet, for example:

ighhkccy

Namerer is template driven so you can actually control what is output so you could make it output only four random characters by issuing the following command:

$ namerer generate "????"

You can learn more about how Namerer works in the Generating Names section.