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Describe the bug

When developing a new template locally and using the --watch-template flag, the generator crashes after generating the template.

The error message on a Mac with nodenv is

[WATCHER] Watching for changes in the template directory /Users/{username}/{path}/asyncapi-go-template and in the AsyncAPI file asyncapi.yaml
Something went wrong:
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/Users/{username}/.nodenv/versions/17.3.1/lib/node_modules/@asyncapi/generator/node_modules/asyncapi-go-template'

How to Reproduce

1. Start a new template, for example using the generator template repository.
2. Start the generator in watch mode: ag --watch-template --output ~/Desktop/asyncapi --force-write asyncapi.yaml "$(pwd)/{your template}".

Expected behavior

The template should be rendered in the output directory and the generator should continue running, watching for changes.

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This bug is caused by a check for a local template in cli.js. The async function that's being executed returns an error when the folder that's being checked doesn't exist. Since the template is a local one for development, it doesn't exist in the default location {global node_modules}/@asyncapi/generator/node_modules/{template name} and fs.lstat returns an error.

The error isn't being handled and the CLI crashes in the line linked above.

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@felixjung Hey, we will pretty soon deprecate Generator CLI. We already enabled generator in AsyncAPI CLI

please use CLI with AsyncAPI CLI and if there are any issues with the watcher, these should be fixed there. After CLI installation just run asyncapi generate fromTemplate --help to learn more.

Thanks 🙏🏼