cookiecutter
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects. (by cookiecutter)
kickstart
A scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly (by Keats)
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| cookiecutter | kickstart | |
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| 56 | 4 | |
| 21,538 | 334 | |
| 1.2% | - | |
| 8.6 | 3.0 | |
| 7 days ago | 28 days ago | |
| Python | Rust | |
| 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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Ask HN: How do you bootstrap your software projects?
Sometimes I use this to abstract boilerplate https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
It can use a repo as a template.
It supports some interactive questions to choose options but mostly it is jinja templates.
Having libraries would be another option.
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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)
- Rmarkdown/Github project organization question
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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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What do you use to generate Terraform/Grunt files at scale?
We use cookie cutter templates (the Python project, https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter ), we prompt for the module & version etc
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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.
kickstart
Posts with mentions or reviews of kickstart.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Introducing tmplt - A User Friendly CLI Tool for Creating Projects with Templates
How does it compare with https://github.com/Keats/kickstart ?
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Architect, your new project scaffolder
I made https://github.com/Keats/kickstart a few years ago that has the same concepts I think
- Kickstart: Single binary scaffolding tool to get new project up and running fast
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Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications
I've made https://github.com/Keats/kickstart which is roughly the same thing (and improved some bits) without the need to install a python package.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cookiecutter and kickstart you can also consider the following projects:
copier - Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
actix-todo - Todo list API made in rust + actix-web + tokio-postgres
Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.
springerle - A cookiecutter tool written in Go
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
rust-starter - Rust Starter Project
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