- adding a --template-url option for sls create

- update `walkDirSync` to ignore symbolic links (now ignore node_modules linked via `npm link`)

docs/providers/aws/cli-reference/create.md

@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ serverless create --template-url https://github.com/serverless/serverless/tree/m
 ```
 
 ## Options
-- `--template` or `-t` The name of one of the available templates. **Required if --template-url is not present**.
-- `--template-url` or `-u` The name of one of the available templates. **Required if --template is not present**.
+- `--template` or `-t` The name of one of the available templates. **Required if --template-url and --template-path are not present**.
+- `--template-url` or `-u` The name of one of the available templates. **Required if --template and --template-path are not present**.
+- `--template-path` The local path of your template. **Required if --template and --template-url are not present**.
 - `--path` or `-p` The path where the service should be created.
 - `--name` or `-n` the name of the service in `serverless.yml`.
 
@@ -90,6 +91,14 @@ will use the already present directory.
 Additionally Serverless will rename the service according to the path you provide. In this example the service will be
 renamed to `my-new-service`.
 
+### Creating a new service using a local template
+
+```bash
+serverless create --template-path path/to/my/template/folder --path path/to/my/service --name my-new-service
+```
+
+This will copy the `path/to/my/template/folder` folder into `path/to/my/service` and rename the service to `my-new-service`.
+
 ### Creating a new plugin
 
 ```

lib/plugins/create/create.js

@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ const path = require('path');
 const fse = require('fs-extra');
 const _ = require('lodash');
 
+const ServerlessError = require('../../classes/Error').ServerlessError;
 const userStats = require('../../utils/userStats');
 const download = require('../../utils/downloadTemplateFromRepo');
+const renameService = require('../../utils/renameService').renameService;
+const copyDirContentsSync = require('../../utils/fs/copyDirContentsSync');
+const dirExistsSync = require('../../utils/fs/dirExistsSync');
 
 // class wide constants
 const validTemplates = [
@@ -66,6 +70,9 @@ class Create {
             usage: 'Template URL for the service. Supports: GitHub, BitBucket',
             shortcut: 'u',
           },
+          'template-path': {
+            usage: 'Template local path for the service.',
+          },
           path: {
             usage: 'The path where the service should be created (e.g. --path my-service)',
             shortcut: 'p',
@@ -111,6 +118,17 @@ class Create {
         .catch(err => {
           throw new this.serverless.classes.Error(err);
         });
+    } else if ('template-path' in this.options) {
+      // Copying template from a local directory
+      const servicePath = this.options.path || path.join(process.cwd(), this.options.name);
+      if (dirExistsSync(servicePath)) {
+        const errorMessage = `A folder named "${servicePath}" already exists.`;
+        throw new ServerlessError(errorMessage);
+      }
+      copyDirContentsSync(this.options['template-path'], servicePath);
+      if (this.options.name) {
+        renameService(this.options.name, servicePath);
+      }
     } else {
       const errorMessage = [
         'You must either pass a template name (--template) or a ',

lib/plugins/create/create.test.js

@@ -666,5 +666,36 @@ describe('Create', () => {
 
       return create.create().catch(() => download.downloadTemplateFromRepo.restore());
     });
+
+    it('should copy "aws-nodejs" template from local path', () => {
+      process.chdir(tmpDir);
+      const distDir = path.join(tmpDir, 'my-awesome-service');
+      create.options = {};
+      create.options.path = distDir;
+      create.options['template-path'] = path.join(__dirname, 'templates/aws-nodejs');
+
+      return create.create().then(() => {
+        const dirContent = fs.readdirSync(distDir);
+
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('serverless.yml');
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('handler.js');
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('gitignore');
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should copy "aws-nodejs" template from local path with a custom name', () => {
+      process.chdir(tmpDir);
+      create.options = {};
+      create.options['template-path'] = path.join(__dirname, 'templates/aws-nodejs');
+      create.options.name = 'my-awesome-service';
+
+      return create.create().then(() => {
+        const dirContent = fs.readdirSync(path.join(tmpDir, 'my-awesome-service'));
+
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('serverless.yml');
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('handler.js');
+        expect(dirContent).to.include('gitignore');
+      });
+    });
   });
 });

lib/utils/fs/walkDirSync.js

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ function walkDirSync(dirPath) {
   list.forEach((filePathParam) => {
     let filePath = filePathParam;
     filePath = path.join(dirPath, filePath);
-    const stat = fs.statSync(filePath);
+    const stat = fs.lstatSync(filePath);
     if (stat && stat.isDirectory()) {
       filePaths = filePaths.concat(walkDirSync(filePath));
     } else {