fossabot/ggft

Go Generate from Template

Go Generate from Template (ggft)

ggft is a tool for managing templates and generating new projects based on them. Commands are available to download, list, and delete templates. This leads to less typing of boilerplate or IDE magic when starting a new project, and helping to enable consistency on teams, or if you need to manage and use git repos on many computers.

Installation & usage

To install ggft, use the standard go install process.

git clone https://github.com/mjslabs/ggft && cd ggft
go install

A common pattern to use with ggft is to download a template once, and then deploy it many times. For example:

ggft get https://github.com/mjslabs/ggft-microservice ms
ggft new ms my-new-project
ggft new ms my-other-new-project

This would download the ggft-microservice repo to a local cache directory (defaults to ~/.ggft/templates), and then creates two new directories using the ggft-microservice directory as a starting point. Assuming the ggft-microservice repo uses Go template syntax in its files, the user will be prompted for values for those template variables.

Caveats

ggft will try to initialize a config structure in ~/.ggft and use this for all template storage. This is not yet configurable.

This is a brand new project, and as such is missing many features and not yet heavily tested. Contributions welcome!

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