Gut VS godot-4-game-template

And it's extensible by plugins! I like using GUT [0] for unit tests, and it injects its own editor tab with a custom UI... which is just another Control node [1].

[0] https://github.com/bitwes/Gut

I forgot to add that unit testing would be great for this. There's a couple frameworks out there, I'd suggest GUT: https://github.com/bitwes/Gut/tree/godot_4.

There are some downsides. GDScript is a dynamically typed language, although you can use static typing, which is slightly more error prone. It doesn't innately support things like unit tests, either, although there's a decent unit test plugin that is in the process of being ported to Godot 4. It's a bit slower than C# for non-engine functionality as well, although you'll probably only notice if you are doing a bunch of nested loop operations (in which case you should probably refactor and try to avoid that kind of thing).

Allows to simulate input https://github.com/bitwes/Gut/wiki/Input-Factory

I don't know if you're aware, but you can run some programs/scripts from the command line, even of tests. Using Gut, you can run tests from the terminal :

My solution in Godot 3 was to use sub-repositories. If I wanted GUT, for example, I'd fork the repo, move the contents of the addons folder to the root of the repository (and delete any extra root files), then import my GUT fork into my project as a subrepo. This meant that the entire module was stored as a single Git reference.

You can find the GUT library here: https://github.com/bitwes/Gut

Based on this, I just created .godot/imported and .godot/editor folders in my CI pipeline and everything seems to work, without including the .godot folder in the repo.

Here's the code: https://gitlab.com/20-games-in-30-days/godot-4-game-template

Haha, yeah. It's not ready quite yet, but it is MIT open-source, so feel free. https://gitlab.com/20-games-in-30-days/godot-4-game-template I'm debating if it would be worth making a Youtube tutorial on this, still gauging interest. It feels like most people I talk to don't even use version control.

I use Git to manage all of my projects. I made a game template for Godot 3, but I decided to take the opportunity to start over in Godot 4. The template contained a number of tools (fps counter, console, etc.) that I like to have in every game I make. Some of these tools are from the AssetLib.