cookiecutter
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects. (by cookiecutter)
copier
Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates. (by copier-org)
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| cookiecutter | copier | |
|---|---|---|
| 56 | 5 | |
| 21,538 | 1,649 | |
| 1.1% | 9.2% | |
| 8.6 | 9.4 | |
| about 17 hours ago | 8 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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.
cookiecutter
Posts with mentions or reviews of cookiecutter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-16.
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FastStream: Python's framework for Efficient Message Queue Handling
Install the cookiecutter package using the following command:
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Template for Django Projects
Consider taking a look at cookiecutter to generate projects from templates. There is also cookiecutter-django. As for your environment variables you should have an example .env file containing all the environment variables required by your project (without setting them) that can be safely pushed into your repository for you and other developers to copy into the actual .env file that'll be used by your project (add this file to .gitignore)
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Python Cookiecutter: Streamline Template Projects for Enhanced Developer Experience
The Python Cookiecutter library revolutionizes project development by offering streamlined approach to creating template projects and improving developer experience.
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A Python package that has a basic app setup inside it
Why not use cookiecutter or a similar tool designed for making these sorts of project templates?
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Sub library with useful code
Is it common? I don't know. Is it useful? Absolutely. There is a tool called cookiecutter that allows you to define your own setup. For example, my cookiecutter setup for a python library is here. You can see what it's like by first installing the cookiecutter cli and then running
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New tool: Souce code generator from a given template
Also cookiecutter.
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Introducing Visual Cookiecutter: a web UI for instanciating cookiecutter templates
Visual Cookiecutter enhances the functionality of cookiecutter by offering unique features such as required fields, conditional input parameters, optional descriptions, and the ability to fix mistakes easily. This package seamlessly integrates with cookiecutter so that all existing templates work out-of-the-box.
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I have a lot of small projects and practice programs. It has gotten a bit chaotic and I want to get into a habit of setting up each project properly. What are some things I need to keep in mind?
cookiecutter maybe of use.
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Template for deploying FastAPI Backend Service on AWS Lambda
Can I suggest using Cookiecutter?
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Can GitHub templates be used for more than just replication?
Good alternatives that are more complex to use but allow for more customization would be things like Cookiecutter: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
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.
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Show HN: Scaffolder, CLI tool to generate project structure, taken from YAML
Thanks for sharing. How does it compare to copier [0]?
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copier VS cruft - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 5 May 2023
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What is a tool your company built that saved a ton of time for all developers?
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 cookiecutter and copier you can also consider the following projects:
Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
try - Dead simple CLI tool to try Python packages - It's never been easier! :package:
bashplotlib - plotting in the terminal
qbatch
httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
doitlive - Because sometimes you need to do it live
aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Torrench
thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
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.