Tempify

Tempify is a powerful, modular template generator designed to create fully customizable project scaffolds across languages and platforms. It supports logic-driven templates, conditional features, dynamic placeholder injection, and full integration with preprocessors.

Features

• Modular Templates — Compose templates from reusable parts
• Dynamic Variables — User input, defaults, derived values, and logic-based prompts
• Template Inheritance — Extend and override base templates
• Conditional File Handling — Include or exclude files and folders based on rules
• Preprocessor Integration — Assign variable sets per file for preprocessing
• CLI Interactive Mode — Guided prompts with validation and smart defaults
• Scriptable in Lua — Full logic and customization powered by Lua scripting
• Extensible — Support for hooks, plugins, remote templates, and more (planned)

Quick Start

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-org/Tempify.git
cd Tempify

# Run the generator
./templgen my-new-project

Template Structure

Templates are stored in the templates/ directory, each with:

templates/
├── my-template/
│   ├── template.lua        # Logic and configuration
│   ├── files/              # Files and folders to generate
│   └── extras/             # Optional helpers or extensions

Lua Template Definition

Each template uses a template.lua file to define:

• Input prompts and defaults
• Logic for conditional inclusion
• File overrides and preprocessor instructions

Example:

return {
    name = "java-maven",
    placeholders = {
        projectName = { prompt = "Project name", default = "MyApp" },
        useDatabase = { prompt = "Include database?", default = "no" }
    },
    overrides = {
        ["files/config/db.xml"] = {
            skip_if = function(vars) return vars.useDatabase == "no" end
        }
    }
}

Preprocessor Integration

You can define per-file preprocessor variables:

overrides = {
    ["files/main.java"] = {
        prebyte = {
            package = "com.example.project"
        }
    }
}

Roadmap

• Core CLI scaffolding engine
• Lua-based template logic
• Conditional file processing
• Preprocessor integration
• Plugin system
• Remote templates
• GUI interface

License

MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.