reverse-cookie.sh is a tool that helps you create new Cookiecutter templates from existing projects. It is inspired by retrocookie and written in Bash. It reverse engineers the project structure by extracting the template variables from the source project and generating the corresponding Cookiecutter template.
- On macOS, ensure you have
gnu-sedinstalled:brew install gnu-sed
Clone this project and run the installer:
bash install.sh
It will copy the executable script to /usr/local/bin.
To use this script:
Usage: reverse-cookie.sh [-h] -i INPUT -o OUTPUT [-E EXCLUDE1 -E ...]
-i INPUT: The path to the source project you want to create a Cookiecutter template from.-o OUTPUT: The path where the generated Cookiecutter template will be saved.-E EXCLUDE: (Optional) One or more paths to exclude from the generated template. You can specify multiple exclude paths by repeating the-Eflag followed by the path to exclude. By default, the script excludes.git, and.cookiecutter.json.
The script will create the specified output directory, copy the source project files (excluding the specified paths), and generate a new README.md and cookiecutter.json file for the template. It will also replace the project-specific values with their corresponding Cookiecutter variables.
After the script has completed, the generated Cookiecutter template will be initialized as a new Git repository with an initial commit.
To create a Cookiecutter template from an existing project located at ./myproject and save the generated template in a directory named ./cookiecutter-myproject, run:
reverse-cookie.sh -i ./myproject -o ./cookiecutter-myproject
If you want to exclude additional directories or files, use the -E flag followed by the path to exclude. For example, to exclude a node_modules directory:
reverse-cookie.sh -i ./myproject -o ./cookiecutter-myproject -E node_modules
This script is licensed under the MIT License. For more details, refer to the LICENSE file included in the repository.