vic / scala-cli-g8

Giter8 launcher for scala-cli

Giter8 template for scala-cli

This project provides a g8 template for GitHub hosted scala-cli projects.

scala-cli run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vic/scala-cli-g8/main/setup.scala

Features

• Automatically setups GitHub actions workflow.
• If your project is a library, its maven artifacts are automatically published at JitPack.
• If your project is a binary, new tags are automatically packaged and published on GitHub releases.

giter8 launcher

Using this launcher you can generate any giter8 template.

scala-cli run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vic/scala-cli-g8/main/g8.scala -- --help

coursier launcher

Using this launcher runs coursier allowing you to use all of its features like running jar published apps.

scala-cli run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vic/scala-cli-g8/main/cs.scala -- --help

For example, to launch

Motivation

Currently the only launchers for giter8 were sbt new and g8 itself, both of which have to be already available on the user's system.

However, as scala-cli becomes more popular, it's much more probable that people will have scala-cli available before they even get to use sbt on their projects.

This repo provides a one-liner launcher that can be run using scala-cli and let people benefit from templates.