# Cookiecutter

Date: 2021-07-16 16:40:44 +08:00Date modified: 2021-07-20 01:59:09 +08:00

A project scaffolding tool enabling to create projects instantly. You can generate projects from your own Cookiecutter template or others' template.

# Features

- The tool makes use of Jinja2 for templating.

- Template files and directories name.

- Hooks either with a shell or Python script.

# Ecosystem

- Cookiecutter has plenty of templates available online

- Cruft is a boilerplate manager allowing you to update templates after scaffolding, check and validate the templates, and 100% compatibility with Cookiecutter templates

- a couple of Cookiecutter templates maintained by the team includes cookiecutter-django and cookiecutter-pypackage; good examples to get started presenting how complex a template can be

## Backlinks

- Python packages