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
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.