kickoff

Start new projects from reusable skeleton directories. Use community project skeletons or create your own. No more need to copy & paste initial boilerplate like Makefiles, CI configuration or language specific configuration files from existing projects to a new one.

Documentation

Head over to the kickoff documentation or directly jump into the Getting started guide.

Features

• Templating of filenames, directory names and file contents via Go templates and Sprig.
• Extensible by allowing users to pass arbitrary values to templates via config files or CLI flags.
• Automatically populate LICENSE file with an open source license obtained from the GitHub Licenses API.
• Automatically add a .gitignore created from templates obtained from GitHub Gitignores API.
• Set local author, repository and skeleton defaults using custom config file.
• Skeleton composition: projects can be created by composing multiple skeletons together.

License

The source code of kickoff is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.