Boiler

Boiler is a framework to help you create (web)projects instead of using a skeleton project. The reason why this project is built is to win time by not updating your dependencies in your skeleton project.

Installation

composer global require glamorous/boiler

Make sure the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory is in your system's "PATH".

How to use it?

Create a folder for your (custom) boiler templates

You can add multiple directories to allow boiler to search templates. To add a directory you only need to run:

boiler setup my/path

Create a boiler templates

Single boiler-file

A boiler template is a simple yaml file with a couple of steps to execute, so the result is a project.

name: Default project

steps:
  - create_readme
  - git

create_readme:
  name: Readme
  script:
    - touch README.md
    - echo '{#PROJECT_NAME#}
           ==============
           
           This is the default README.md created by boiler.' >README.md

git:
    name: Initialized Git and create first commit
    script:
        - git init
        - git commit -m 'Initial commit'

In the above example:

• added a README.md file
• initialize git & created first commit

Boiler directory

Just like a single boiler yaml-file, you can create a directory with the same name like the yaml-file. All files that are included in this directory will be copied to the new directory. The only file that isn't copied is the yaml-template-file.

Create a project with your created template

Creating a project based on your default.yml template is as simple as:

boiler create default

The boiler script will create a directory default and run the scripts from your template to create your project.

Extra options

--dir

Define the name of the directory yourself

--name

Define the name of the project (can be used in your template as {#PROJECT_NAME#})

Include templates

It's possible to include other created templates with extra functions to re-use. Instead of duplicating specific functions for every type of project, you can just include it and call it;

functions.yml in a directory where boiler setup was run:

create_readme:
  name: Readme
  script:
    - touch README.md
    - echo '{#PROJECT_NAME#}
           ==============
           
           This is the default README.md created by boiler.' >README.md

git:
    name: Initialized Git and create first commit
    script:
        - git init
        - git commit -m 'Initial commit'

default.yml in a directory where boiler setup was run:

name: Default project

include:
  - functions

steps:
  - create_readme
  - git

Commands

boiler create my-template: Create an application based on the "my-template".

boiler setup my/path: Set up a directory as a template directory (path is optional, current directory will be taken).

boiler remove my/path: Remove a directory from the template directories (path is optional, current directory will be taken).

boiler paths: Show all included template directories.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details. To see a list of the contributors: all contributors.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.