cruft
Allows you to maintain all the necessary cruft for packaging and building projects separate from the code you intentionally write. Built on-top of, and fully compatible with, CookieCutter. (by cruft)
cookiecutter
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects. (by cookiecutter)
| cruft | cookiecutter | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 56 | |
| 1,157 | 21,618 | |
| 2.6% | 0.9% | |
| 2.0 | 8.7 | |
| 9 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.
cruft
Posts with mentions or reviews of cruft.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
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copier VS cruft - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 5 May 2023
- How is everyone managing project config?
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Python toolkits
I maintain cookiecutter templates (can't share. It's in companies private repository) which have all these tool included along with some CI/CD pipelines. In case the template changes, we use cruft to update existing project which was using that template.
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create_app: A tool that allows to quickly get your basic project structure ready, while adopting the best technologies, tools, and practices
Have a look at cruft. It also uses cookicutter but has extra features like updating existing projects with template updates over the project lifetime.
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A language-agnostic project generator
There's this project that does that: https://github.com/cruft/cruft/
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Architectural question: How to create a "base" code and allow separate projects to depend on it, and build their own stuff on top, while keeping the base code in sync...
https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.2/ https://github.com/cruft/cruft
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cruft and cookiecutter you can also consider the following projects:
copier - Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
ptb-django-cookiecutter - A simple cookiecutter to create Python Telegram bots, wrapped with Django.
Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.
cookiecutter-django-wagtail - Cookiecutter Django + Wagtail
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
cookiecutter-django - Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
try - Dead simple CLI tool to try Python packages - It's never been easier! :package:
black - The uncompromising Python code formatter
bashplotlib - plotting in the terminal
goli - A sophisticated boilerplate generator based on best practices and modern useful templates
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