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Cloning Repositories

Explore how to automate cloning multiple Git repositories using Node.js. Understand how to set up config files, use the shelljs module to execute CLI commands, and manage repositories for build tools and deployment. This lesson helps you efficiently prepare your projects by automating repository setup.

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Creating the config file

Here it comes, a new dependency. This one is called shelljs, and it allows you to execute commands on the CLI, through your scripts.

You require it at the top of your script, as well as the colors package, the native path module, and a pre-made config.json file, containing URLs of the repositories you would like to clone.

Note: As mentioned earlier in the course, you will find a config.example.json in the working directory. This will need to be copied and created as config.json. The reasoning behind this is that some examples will have sensitive data, ...