laptop vs copier

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Setup any computer with sensible and extensible defaults for git, packages, editors and dotfiles. (by Shift3)

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Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates. (by copier-org)

Command-line Tools Productivity Tools Python Scaffolding Cookiecutter project-template HacktoberFest copier-template

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laptop		copier
	Project
1	Mentions	5
10	Stars	1,678
-	Growth	4.0%
0.0	Activity	9.5
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Shell	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

laptop

Posts with mentions or reviews of laptop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-05.

What is a tool your company built that saved a ton of time for all developers?
5 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 5 Nov 2021

Not OP but our company open sourced our tool that we use on all new machines. There is two configurations, one for Mac and one for Linux.

copier

Posts with mentions or reviews of copier. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-23.

Show HN: Scaffolder, CLI tool to generate project structure, taken from YAML
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023

Thanks for sharing. How does it compare to copier [0]?
[0] https://github.com/copier-org/copier
copier VS cruft - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 5 May 2023
Copier: Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
What is a tool your company built that saved a ton of time for all developers?
5 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 5 Nov 2021

We're using git repositories for the templates and using commits to enable updates (i.e essentially rebasing) similar to how Copier and Hygen do it. Any conflicts where the team has modified templated files can be resolved using git diff/merge.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing laptop and copier you can also consider the following projects:

Karate - Test Automation Made Simple

cookiecutter - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.

boilerplate-client-angular - The Bitwise standard starting point for new Angular projects

HTTP Prompt - An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services

howdoi - instant coding answers via the command line

pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

PathPicker - PathPicker accepts a wide range of input -- output from git commands, grep results, searches -- pretty much anything. After parsing the input, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in. After that you can open them in your favorite editor or execute arbitrary commands.

SAWS - A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI).