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A whole new developer ecosystem: CakeCutter 🍰

Dhravya on June 17, 2022

A couple months ago, I wrote a blog Introducing Cakecutter, which was, essentially, a modular version for create-python-project. Both of these proj...
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Yash • • Edited

sorry its not npx cc
its

npx cakecutter
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and for mac -

npx cc-for-mac
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and linux

npx cc-for-linux
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but its preferred to install it first

npm install -g cakecutter/cc-for-mac/cc-for-linux
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then

cc cut ...
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sorry for the inconvenience caused

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Ben Overmyer •

If it’s written in Go, what are the npx/m commands for?

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Yash • • Edited

We published the package as a binary executable to npm.

Not everyone has go installed, and almost everyone has npm

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Ben Overmyer •

Fair enough. Have you considered maintaining a Homebrew package for it? I'll try it out by installing with Go myself, but Homebrew would be easier, and less icky than npm.

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Yash •

Yes.. We were gonna publish it on homebrew, scoop and conda-forge

but once we found out that you can publish binary executables on npm. We published it there are thought it should be enough.

And we also did tried publishing it on scoop but the request got rejected because the project was very nee

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Yash •

Here are some features that we currently have in mind. feel free to share your own and give feedback about these

Extensions

Extensions will be a list of other published cakes or maybe even local cakes.

[metadata]
name = "..."
description = "..."
exts = ["readme","license"]
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these exts will be run before the actual cake. So you don't have to write extra code. and ask the questions.

Data Gatherers

Data gatherers are kinda like questions but they are not asked. They are commands which runs to gather data. like suppose you wanted to get the user's git username you can run git config --get user.name :-

[gatherers]
id-of-gatherer = "git config --get user.name"
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Before creating the template these commands will be run and there output will be saved. and u can use them just like questions

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FJones •

How are you sandboxing the commands? Seeing as how we've had a variety of install-script-based attacks on the npm platform lately.

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Yash • • Edited

if u have an idea please suggest!

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Yash • • Edited

aahh you u can run anything rn

maybe if we list the commands that will be ran, in the cake page...

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Pandademic •

Hey! I'd like to help and to contribute , now that it's in go. I don't really know rust , but go is my bread and butter. You seem not to have contributing guidelines on github , so is their anyway I can help?

Thanks!

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Dhravya •

You can! We're working on creating issues, setting up future plans and also setting up contribution guidelines for everyone.

Thanks for showing interest in our project! till then, if you find any bugs, or can think of any features to implement or, in general, think that anything can be better, kindly create an issue

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha •

Great to see it come alive.

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Allan Chain •

It looks pretty much like cookiecutter. Could you tell us more about the difference?

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Dhravya •

It's like our own implementation of Cookiecutter, but instead of the templates being stored in git repositories, they are stored as single files in our own database, with a central platform to find and use the "cakes"

Also, our implementation is faster

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Shoubhit Dash •

exciting stuff!