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Emanuele Bartolesi
Emanuele Bartolesi

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readme-generator: a global dotnet tool for your next project

How many hours or minutes do you spend to create a new Readme for a project?
I think too much or too less.
A good Readme file for a project it's a like a business card of you and for you have built.

The last week I spent few hours to create a tool for creating a really simple README file directly from your machine.
It's a dotnet tool that you can install from NuGet.

readme-generator

Installation

Install readme-generator with NuGet as global tool



  dotnet tool install --global readme-generator


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How to use it

As a global dotnet tool, after the installation, you can launch the tool with the following command:



  readme-generator


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Contributing

The tool is opensource and contributing is really welcome to add some parts on the markdown file. :)

GitHub logo kasuken / readme-generator

A simple README generator.

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README generator

Create a simple README for your next project in 5 seconds

Installation

Install readme-generator with NuGet as global tool

  dotnet tool install --global readme-generator
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How to use it

As a global dotnet tool, after the installation, you can launch the tool with the following command:

  readme-generator
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Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/kasuken/readme-generator
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Go to the project directory

  cd readme-generator
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Install dependencies

  dotnet run
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Demo

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Tech Stack

  • .NET 6
  • C# 10
  • NuGet
  • GitHub Actions

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

License

MIT




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Intitech

Wow, this is nice 👍

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Tommer Haugland

Thanks!

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Dhravya

Wow! Great job!
Looks like it's the same thing as my readme generator (even the text is same, xD) but in c#!! Could've mentioned it tbh, but it's fine lol

anyways, really good project 👍🏻

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