clawplach / project-templates

Project Templates

What is the goal of this repository?

The goal of this repository is to classify and enumerate methods of (re)generating project archetypes.

Directory Templates

There are two different was to describe a project's directory schema:

1. Declare the schema in some DSL and then use a tool to generate the directories.

# TODO: Add an example where directories, files, and attributes are declared in some prescribed manner that other tools   parse and assemble.

2. Create an archive of an example of the directory structure.

#!/bin/sh -eu

echo "What do you want to call the project template?"
read name

mkdir -p ${name}/src/{main,test,script,doc}

touch ${name}/README.md ${name}/src/script/bootstrap.sh
chmod u+x ${name}/src/script/bootstrap.sh
tar -c -z -f ${name}.tar.gz ${name}

The ${name}.tar.gz package can now be distributed by many means (HTTPS,FTPS,SCP,…).

… and then later expanded:

#!/bin/sh -eu

echo "Enter the project template file URL:"
read url && wget ${url} | tar -x -z

Implementations

name	platform	permissions
j2	all	yes
Apache Maven Archetype Plugin	all	yes
Buildout	all	?
Yeoman	all (node.js)	?

Text File Templates

Implementations

name	platform
Velocity	all
FreeMarker	all
stringtemplate	all