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AOC template

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AOC in AOCtemplate stand for Advent of Code it is a website which hosts a coding hackathon at every year in the month🗓️ of october. It starts on 1️⃣st of october and ends on 31st.

During this month🗓️ each day you are provided with two problem statements and a large chunk of test data to run and test your solutions. After you are confident in your solution you have to make submission of your solution.

Story

Now to participate in hackathon, You as a participant have to download↘️ the test file which has test cases, then copy©️ it in some type of project folder. And then to check your solution with the test cases file, you have to write a file reader function providing the path to the test file, then read it, parse it. This task you will have to perform for 31 days just to start testing a solution.

So to prevent this repetative task I created this CLI tool and made it available on package registry so that other can use the same aoctemplate.

With this CLI tool you can create your project folder and it will handel the file creation and reading of the data📰 from the input file. So now as a participant you🫵 only have to think about the problem statement and its solution😉.

About this package

This tool comes with two commands⌨️ aoc and other is aoc run.

**aoc

aoc takes <folder_name> as argument and generates two files input.txt and solution.js.

aoc run

aoc run command takes <separator> as argument and reads the input file then will parse it and then will pass the parse data to your written solution.

Dependency

This package only has one dependency for coloring text on CLI.

Learnings

Mentions

Thanks 📧Heet for the help with NPM package deployment.