julianstephens / project-generator-cli

A CLI tool for scaffolding minimal project templates with sane defaults.

project-generator-cli

A CLI tool for scaffolding minimal project templates with sane defaults.

Prerequisites

General

• Git
• GitHub CLI (for creating GH remotes, otherwise use the -l or --local flag to skip)

Python

• Poetry

Typescript

• Node >=v18
• pnpm

Installation

Step 1: Clone this repo

Step 2: Set WORKSPACE_DIR environment variable

Add the following line to your profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc). This is where all the projects created using the tool will be located (defaults to ~/workspace if unset).

export WORKSPACE_DIR=/path/to/your/project/workspace

Step 3: Make the gen command globally available

cd /path/to/project-generator-cli
pnpm link --global

Usage

gen help