go-cookiecutter

A command-line utility that creates projects from templates for any language The templating language is similar to handlebars or mustache templates.

Installation

• Download the latest binary for your OS release from the releases page
• Rename the file to cookiecutter
• Make the file executable (chmod +x cookiecutter)
• Check out the help menu for usage instructions cookiecutter help
• (Optional Step) Move it to a folder in your PATH variable. (mv cookiecutter /bin)

Features

• Basic find and replacement of variables
• Ignore parsing files in .gitignore
• Find & replace directory names that are templates

Usage

cookiecutter run [directory] [find1 replace1 find2 replace2 ...]

Example:

This is a handler file in a project directory

package handler

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

var (
	SERVICE = "{{SERVICE}}"
	VERSION = "{{VERSION}}"
)

func Info(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	fmt.Fprintf(w, "service name is %s and version %s\n", SERVICE, VERSION)
}

Running the following command in the directory which holds this file will replace SERVICE & VERSION with login and v1 respectively

cookiecutter run . SERVICE login VERSION v1

Example templates can be found in the examples folder

Contribute

Pull requests are welcome!