# Templating
# Cookiecutter
Automatic code generation
- Either use the interactive option of python API directly from code with no inputs, required inputs could be provided as below
- can use filters and operator chaining
- Uses jinja templating
- Inheeritance
include- Multiple liceses to choose from
- Advantages as compared to other code generation tools
- yeoman
- Cookie cutter templates on github
pip3 install --user --verbose cookiecutter
cookiecutter -v --no-input gh:msabramo/cookiecutter-supervisor program_name=foobar startsecs=10
{{cookiecutter.plugin_name}}
{%- now "utc", "%Y" %}
{# jinja comment #}
# How to create your own cookiecutter template?
cookiecutter.json- All variables used in template contect need to be in cookiecutter.json
- Over 1000 already built templates
- pytest template
- pypi project template
- python to IOS template
mkdir {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}
cd {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}
touch {{cookiecutter.script_name}}.py
# Steps
- First create the project
- Then replace evverything with template variables
- How to test templates on CI?
BSD project clone cannot be MIT. you can clone and modify MIT