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Readme md generator

๐Ÿ“„ CLI that generates beautiful README.md files

From kefranabgยทUpdated June 17, 2026ยทView on GitHubยท

> CLI that generates beautiful README.md files. `readme-md-generator` will suggest you default answers by reading your `package.json` and `git` configuration. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 11,121 stars and 1,374 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: cli, generator, readme, readme-badges, readme-generator.

Latest release: v1.0.0
December 3, 2019View Changelog โ†’
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CLI that generates beautiful README.md files.<br /> readme-md-generator will suggest you default answers by reading your package.json and git configuration.

โœจ Demo

readme-md-generator is able to read your environment (package.json, git config...) to suggest you default answers during the README.md creation process:

<p align="center"> <img width="700" align="center" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9840435/60266022-72a82400-98e7-11e9-9958-f9004c2f97e1.gif" alt="demo"/> </p>

Generated README.md:

<p align="center"> <img width="700" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9840435/60266090-9cf9e180-98e7-11e9-9cac-3afeec349bbc.jpg" alt="cli output"/> </p>

Example of package.json with good meta data:

json
// The package.json is not required to run README-MD-GENERATOR { "name": "readme-md-generator", "version": "0.1.3", "description": "CLI that generates beautiful README.md files.", "author": "Franck Abgrall", "license": "MIT", "homepage": "https://github.com/kefranabg/readme-md-generator#readme", "repository": { "type": "git", "url": "git+https://github.com/kefranabg/readme-md-generator.git" }, "bugs": { "url": "https://github.com/kefranabg/readme-md-generator/issues" }, "engines": { "npm": ">=5.5.0", "node": ">=9.3.0" } }

๐Ÿš€ Usage

Make sure you have npx installed (npx is shipped by default since npm 5.2.0)

Just run the following command at the root of your project and answer questions:

sh
npx readme-md-generator

Or use default values for all questions (-y):

sh
npx readme-md-generator -y

Use your own ejs README template (-p):

sh
npx readme-md-generator -p path/to/my/own/template.md

You can find ejs README template examples here.

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This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].
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๐Ÿค Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome.<br />
Feel free to check issues page if you want to contribute.<br />
Check the contributing guide.<br />

Author

๐Ÿ‘ค Franck Abgrall

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Please โญ๏ธ this repository if this project helped you!

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๐Ÿ“ License

Copyright ยฉ 2019 Franck Abgrall.<br />
This project is MIT licensed.


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