Cookiecutter

Cookiecutter: Open-Source Project Template Generator

Cookiecutter is an open-source command-line utility that creates project templates, allowing developers to quickly generate baseline code for new projects. It streamlines starting new projects and standardizes structure and format across projects.

What is Cookiecutter?

Cookiecutter is an open-source command-line utility that creates project templates, allowing developers to quickly generate baseline code for new projects. It is designed to standardize and streamline project setup so developers can hit the ground running on actually writing application code.

Here's how it works: developers create Cookiecutter project templates with predefined file/folder structures, variables, and placeholders. Then other developers can use Cookiecutter to generate new projects from those templates - Cookiecutter will prompt them to fill in the template variables/placeholders, then generate the final project with their custom config.

So for example a Django developer could create a Cookiecutter template that sets up a baseline Django app with predefined folders for models, views, templates, etc. The template would have variables for the app name, Django version to use, etc. Then another developer could use that Cookiecutter template to instantly generate a new Django app just by entering their desired app name and Django version - Cookiecutter would handle creating the files and folders.

This saves developers from having to manually setup new projects and results in standardized, DRY project configurations. Cookiecutter promotes reusability and consistency across projects, teams, and organizations. It's supported for Python, Django, OpenSSL, TensorFlow, Python, and many other languages and frameworks.

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