yo VS cookiecutter

Maybe recheck the name ? https://www.npmjs.com/package/yo https://yeoman.io/

FYI, the name of the tool conflicts with the well-known project-scaffolding generation tool yeoman (which also uses yo as the program name)

Yeoman

I am familiar with Yeoman but the project appears dead. There are no replies to recent comments and the last release was a year ago. I would prefer to not use a dead/dying project as the basis for a new work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The next best option would be yeoman - https://yeoman.io/

you're probably thinking of yeoman https://github.com/yeoman/yo

We'll need to install the Yeoman scaffolding CLI tools as well as the generator.

Have you tried yo? Haven't tried it much so can't say for sure but it's a pretty common recommendation for project generators.

I used Yeoman to generate the scaffolding. Make a project folder and run:

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.

Install the cookiecutter package using the following command:

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)

The Python Cookiecutter library revolutionizes project development by offering streamlined approach to creating template projects and improving developer experience.

We use cookie cutter templates (the Python project, https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter ), we prompt for the module & version etc

Why not use cookiecutter or a similar tool designed for making these sorts of project templates?

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

Also cookiecutter.

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.