experimental
Boil is a boilerplating/templating tool for Go that creates complete project boilerplates or smaller fragments of a codebase.
It takes snapshots of some source directory and optionaly all its child directories and files retaining file system hierarchy and packages it into a template.
Template file names and content can be parametrized. Content can be templated
using text/template, input data comes from stdin prompts, command line
arguments, AST of some go file or package, other input files, etc.
Templates are stored into repositories by default and boil maintains a default repository. Templates can be addressed by a path relative to the loaded repository or an absolute path to a template. Custom repositories can be loaded. Both templates and repositories can separately be versioned as they are just a directory on a file system. Loading of repositories or templates from network might be implemented later.
Templates can have sub-templates and define groups of them so combinations of parent and child templates can be executed as a single template, enabling template modularity.
Custom commands can be defined at various stages of template execution so data can be generated externally and optionally cleaned up after.
A metafile named boil.json defines a template and resides in the root of a
template structure.
Up to date help is in the tool itself and reachable via boil help.
To install boil type go install github.com/vedranvuk/boil.
MIT