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Discussion on: How Do You Automate Your Boilerplate?

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Marc Nevin

Hmm okay, more and more advocates for Hygen.io!

What do you think makes it easier to maintain?

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Sean Connolly

You can update your templates and then test right there in the CLI. With GH templates you need to go through the process of creating a new repo.

Also hygen.io supports scripts. E.g. you can run npm install after generating your project.

GH templates don't even support variable substitution.

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Marc Nevin

Ohh the scripting and substitution do sound like they'd win out on top of GH templates,

Variations depending on individual templates seem the most time consuming forking the template to make a template etc, guess that gets around all of that!