Show HN: RepoCreator – GitHub Project Scaffolding as a Service

repocreator.zoltu.io

6 points·MicahZoltu··6 comments

I will try to monitor this news article and am happy to answer any questions anyone has.

Please also feel free to use the feedback button on the page to report a bug or request a feature. I developed this application mostly in a vacuum to fulfill my own needs, so I'm sure I missed some basic features that are likely obvious to other people.

Does this tool only replace the magic string from the source code or will it also replace directory names?

For example if I had a sub-folder in my project named "magic_ProjectName_magic/src" will it prompt me to change the name of the sub-folder?

It will replace strings in folder names, file names and in any text file (as identified as text by GitHub).

You can see an example here: https://github.com/Zoltu/Templates.GradlePlugin.Groovy/tree/...

In that case, both the folder name and the file name have magic strings in them, so both will have a replacement prompt.

The site looks good. Landing page has good description about the tool.

I don't see many templates except that gradle one, do you have more or is that yet to come?

I have written a handful of templates but only 3 are sponsored (which means they show up for everyone) and only one has 2 favorites (the threshold for something being considered "popular" right now).

This comment makes me realize that I should turn the "popular" threshold down to 1 favorite so more things show up for new users until the application starts getting some traffic.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll get that change pushed in a bit!

I have pushed the change. Once caches are refreshed you should see ~11 template repositories without having to search GitHub.

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