scaffold/README.md

# scaffold

## Intro

Use scaffold to setup a new project with a directory skeleton of your design, and if you'd like, it can also automatically initialize local, remote and gitea git repositories for the new project.

## What scaffold does

- A new project directory is created
- Your project skeleton/template is copied from your config/projectType/sample directory
- your setup/initialization commmands are run
- a git repository is initialized in the project directory
  - and if you enable it, a remote repository is created and setup

## Installation

1 - Grab a version for your system from the releases page.
2 - Put it in a directory that is on your path.
3 - now configure your preferred setups/layouts/skeletons/templates for your projects.

## Configuration

On linux the configuration directory will be at /home/user/.config/devel/scaffold

For the windows versions, you might want to look at your User_Configuration_Directories location, and change it according to your needs. On windows it's value is the %APPDATA% environment variable.

In a PowerShell, use `Get Child-Item Env:` to display all the environment variables.
Then `[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("APPDATA","C:\Users\You\Wherever-you-like\","User")` to set the new value.

## The `scaffold` command

| Command | Description |
| ------- | ----------- |
| scaffold | The program name |
| flags:
  -i or -Info | Display the available project types and the build and version information about the program. |
| **Examples:** |  |
| scaffold *ProjectType* *NewProjectName* | Stuff |

## Configuration of samples

![Example Directory Structure](assets/images/dirtree-pic.png)

The image should explain alot quickly. The go, go-cli, go-web, hs, js, py and svelte directories define the project types available to scaffold. Arrange the contents of the sample directory, within each project type directory, to your preferred layout for each language/use-case.

## Git

Git is available to be used as the version control system for new projects. Select/Deselect within the `scaffold-<PROJECTTYPE>.toml` file.

*Please Note* that if you also use git to track your configuration files and sample directories, then a `.gitignore` file within your sample directory will interfere with git's ability to track your skeletons/templates properly. So, to allow for this, put what you normally would in a `.gitignore` file instead into a file named `GITIGNORE` in your sample directory. And scaffold will convert it to a `.gitignore` file within your newProject directory.

If you are NOT using git to track your project types and samples/skeletons/templates, then no problem, just place a .gitignore file within the sample directory as you would any other file.