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Why you should use Cookiecutter in you next Django Project.

What is Cookiecutter?

A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. creating a Python package project from a Python package project template.

Features

  • Cross-platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux are officially supported.

  • You don’t have to know/write Python code to use Cookiecutter

  • Works with Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 ,PyPy and PyPy3.

  • Project templates can be in any programming language or markup format:
    Python, JavaScript, Ruby, CoffeeScript, RST, Markdown, CSS, HTML, you name it.

  • You can use multiple languages in the same project template.
    Simple command line usage:

Install cookiecutter

pip install --user cookiecutter
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or you can use any package manager

Usage

First, clone a Cookiecutter project template:

$ git clone git@github.com:audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git
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Make your changes

Modify the variables defined in cookiecutter.json.

Open up the skeleton project. If you need to change it around a bit, do so.

You probably also want to create a repo, name it differently, and push it as your own new Cookiecutter project template, for handy future use.

Generate your project

Then generate your project from the project template:

$ cookiecutter cookiecutter-pypackage/
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and thats is it, your are ready to go.

reference

Documentation: https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io
GitHub: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cookiecutter

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Sm0ke • Edited

Great tool indeed. Copier is also really nice.
Lately I'm playing with both 🚀🚀