ffizer is a files and folders initializer / generator. It creates or updates any kind (or part) of project from template(s).

keywords: file generator, project template, project scaffolding, quick start, project bootstrap, project skeleton

• Features
• Usages
  • Install
    • via homebrew (MacOs & Linux)
    • via cargo
  • Run
    • Apply a template (to create or update)
  • Authoring a template
• Few templates
• Build

Features

• Create or update files and folder from one (or several) template(s).
• A native executable (cli)
  • Install via download a standalone single file on system (no requirements like python, ruby, nodejs, java, ...).
  • Run as fast enough project generator.
  • Run with dry mode (useful to test).
• A rust library
  • Can be included into other tool
• Templates Authoring
  • Can be used for any file & folder generation (no specialization to one ecosystem).
  • Can start as simple as a folder to copy "as is".
  • Can use the Handlebars template syntax for file content, extended with functions:
    • To transform strings (toUpperCase, toLowerCase, Capitalize,...)
    • To retrieve content via http get (like .gitignore from gitignore.io, license from spdx)
    • ...
  • Can replace variables part in file and folder's name
  • Can be composed of other templates (applied as layer)
  • Can ignore file / folder under conditions
  • Can store the content at the root of the folder or under the sub-folder template
• Templates Hosting
  • On a local folder
  • On a hosted git repository (public / private, github / bitbucket/ gitlab / ...)
    • At the root of the repository
    • In a sub-folder of the repository
    • In any revision (branch, tag, commit)

Suggestions are welcomes ;-)

A list of alternatives is available on the wiki, feel free to complete / correct.

Usages

Install

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ffizer/ffizer/master/scripts/getLatest.sh | bash

Or download the binary for your platform from github releases, then un-archive it and place it your PATH.

via homebrew (MacOs & Linux)

brew install ffizer/ffizer/ffizer-bin
ffizer upgrade

via cargo

# install pre-build binary via cargo-binstall
cargo binstall ffizer

# install from source
cargo install ffizer --force --features cli

Run

❯ ffizer --help

ffizer is a files and folders initializer / generator.
It creates or updates any kind (or part) of project from template(s)

Usage: ffizer [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  apply             Apply a template into a target directory
  inspect           Inspect configuration, caches,... (wip)
  show-json-schema  Show the json schema of the .ffizer.yaml files
  test-samples      test a template against its samples
  help              Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -v, --verbose...  Verbose mode (-v, -vv (very verbose / level debug), -vvv) print on stderr
  -h, --help        Print help information
  -V, --version     Print version information

https://ffizer.github.io/ffizer/book/

Apply a template (to create or update)

❯ ffizer apply --help

Apply a template into a target directory

Usage: ffizer apply [OPTIONS] --source <URI> --destination <FOLDER>

Options:
      --confirm <CONFIRM>          ask for plan confirmation [default: Never] [possible values: auto, always, never]
      --update-mode <UPDATE_MODE>  mode to update existing file [default: Ask] [possible values: ask, keep, override, update-as-remote, current-as-local, show-diff, merge]
  -y, --no-interaction             should not ask for confirmation (to use default value, to apply plan, to override, to run script,...)
      --offline                    in offline, only local templates or cached templates are used
  -s, --source <URI>               uri / path of the template
      --rev <REV>                  git revision of the template [default: master]
      --source-subfolder <FOLDER>  path of the folder under the source uri to use for template
  -d, --destination <FOLDER>       destination folder (created if doesn't exist)
  -v, --variables <KEY_VALUE>      set variable's value from cli ("key=value")
  -h, --help                       Print help information
  -V, --version                    Print version information

• use a local folder as template

  ffizer apply --source $HOME/my_templates/tmpl0 --destination my_project
  

• use a remote git repository as template

  ffizer apply --source https://github.com/ffizer/template_sample.git --destination my_project
  

  output

  Configure variables
  
  ✔ project_name · my-project
  ✔ package_name · my_project
  
  
  Plan to execute
  
    - make dir        my_project
    - make dir         ├─dir_1
    - add file         │  └─file_1_1.txt
    - make dir         ├─dir_2_my-project
    - add file         │  └─file_1_2.txt
    - add file         ├─file_1.txt
    - add file         ├─file_2.txt
    - add file         ├─file_3.txt
    - add file         ├─file_4_my_project.txt
    - add file         ├─file_5_my-project.txt
    - add file         └─file_6.hbs
  

Authoring a template

Start with Template Authoring Tutorial

Few templates

• Any git repositories (in this case ffizer is like git clone ... && cd ... && rm -Rf .git)
• Any local folder (in this case ffizer is like cp -R ... ...)
• Parametrized (with variables) templates:
  • ffizer/templates_default: the default collections of templates for ffizer (WIP)
  • davidB31 / cg-starter-multi-rust · GitLab Project template for Multi-Bot in Rust on CodinGame.
  • davidB/templates: repository to host the my collections of templates to used with ffizer.
  • github repo tagged ffizer-template
  • samples (used for test, demo) templates_default)
    • ffizer/template_sample: a simple template for ffizer used for demo and test
    • ffizer/tests/data at master · ffizer/ffizer

Build

cargo install cargo-make --force
cargo make ci-flow

Update CHANGELOG.md

cargo make update-changelog
git add CHANGELOG.md
git commit -m ':memo: (CHANGELOG) update'

Release a new version by bump patch (or minoror major)

cargo make publish patch # dry-run
cargo make publish --execute patch