project init (pi)

This is intended to provide something similar to cookiecutter, albeit faster. It is somewhat more limited that cookiecutter, but for most users the difference will be imperceptible (though it will be noticeably faster!).

Reasons to use pi:

• Templates are smaller. Define files you need in a .toml rather than an entire directory tree.
• Fast. pi is much faster than cookiecutter, even when used locally.
• pi uses mustache, a logic-less language that has libraries for many other languages. That means that you can manipulate your pi templates in other languages, if you'd like. Reasons not to use pi:
• pi does not (currently) fetch templates remotely.
• pi uses logic-less templates
• pi does not allow custom keys to be set in config files. This can be inconvenient.

Configuration

Configuration is via the ~/.pi.toml file. The following is an example:

[author]
name = "Vanessa McHale"
email = "tmchale@wisc.edu"
github_username = "vmchale"

[version]
version = "0.1.0"
version-control = "git"

This will make the variable name available in the mustache templates (more on that later), and it will initialize a git repository

Templates

pi uses mustache for templating, via the rustache crate.

You can find examples and help on the mustache page.