Do you use starter templates for your projects?
Hey!
Do you use any starter templates when working on new projects? What do you look out for? Is there anything in particular that's a must have?
Having Django as my goto-framework, I've used https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django a lot in the past. Docker integration is a must have for me which wasn't available a couple of years ago, so I created a massive pull request and it was added. I eventually became a core dev on the project and added a couple more features like Celery integration and database backups.
Another one I've used in the past is https://github.com/cookiecutter-flask/cookiecutter-flask for small projects that just need an API.
Currently I'm working on Launchr at https://launchr.io/ , a starter template for SaaS projects. It's Open Source and my plan is to release a production addon once I'm progressing further.
What are your thoughts? Which ones are you using? Recommendations?
For Gatsby, gatsby new site works fine, but for NextJS, I use my own template : https://github.com/akash-joshi/nextjs-config . For node, I build from scratch.
I will either use the default Quasar template when doing large apps, or just use the old classic HTML5 boilerplate if I want to avoid javascript frameworks and keep it small.
It might be based on a stubborn attitude, but I just feel better when I completely define the structure of my code. Helps me long-term I think :^)
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