A custom npm init script, which incorporates an initial GitHub commit. The file should be in your home directory.

.npm-init.js

const { execSync } = require('child_process');

function run(func) {
  console.log(execSync(func).toString())
}

module.exports = {
  name: prompt('package name', basename || package.name),
  version: prompt('version', '0.0.0'),
  decription: prompt('description', ''),
  main: prompt('entry point', 'index.js'),
  keywords: prompt(function (s) { return s.split(/\s+/) }),
  author: prompt('author', 'Joe Bloggs <[email protected]> (joebloggs.com)'),
  license: prompt('license', 'ISC'),
  repository: prompt('github repository url', '', function (url) {
    if (url) {
      run('touch README.md');
      run('git init');
      run('git add README.md');
      run('git commit -m "first commit"');
      run(`git remote add origin ${url}`);
      run('git push -u origin master');
    }
    return url;
  }),
}