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Skeleton.io – Curated skeleton app and boilerplate code directory

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Great idea but you should have spent a few hours searching for as many frameworks you could find and adding them. This will slowly slip off the first page and everyone will forget about it.

If there were a few projects pre-populated, I'd probably have bookmarked and come back / submitted anything you might have missed.

Thanks for the input! Yeah I thought about adding some skeletons already, but then decided to make it truly crowd sourced. I think this is a great start to get the curating going. I hope you'll still bookmark the page and come back later once the first skeletons hit the page

A project is still considered crowdsourced even if you're the only one in the crowd at first :-)

I added myself to the mailing list. I hope you get enough projects to open up the site soon.

I am so mind blown right now... On 10/14 (5 days ago) i checked if this domain is available (it was) because I had exactly the same idea. I even made a note that is sticking on my desk right now. Good luck with your project...

I know that feeling really well. I have same ideas to a lot of people in a close timeframe often. As I want to open source the project, you are definitely more than welcome to help develop the page!

And yeah, the URL is pretty nice - I could not believe it was still available ;-)

great idea to me, should have existed before, and a suggestion for future maturity. For a given code base, have a cumulative tree with all possible combinations of feature choices, look at "feature model" in wikipedia so you can map a FODA diagram to a VCS controlled tree, that is, think of a code base as a product line instead of a fixed product.

Great input! Thanks for the recommendation - will def look into it

I've been looking into ocaml, and was wondering what to do once my programs grow beyond a single file. Unfortunately it doesn't have the equivalent of 'lein new' (Clojure tool for creating a new, empty project skeleton), so I'd welcome a repository of best practice examples like skeleton.io.

Always great to hear that people are looking for aggregation sites like skeleton.io - We are currently thinking about also hosting not just skeletons but aggregations to tutorials, and any other helpful coding resource as well

I have a cookiecutter template for js_of_ocaml projects if you want:

https://github.com/emillon/cookiecutter-jsoo

(cookiecutter is a general scaffolding tool)

your thoughts on how this relates to or serves a different usecase than yeoman?

yeoman is a great tool I actually use myself quite often. I just wanted to create a place where people might go to see if there are great skeleton apps available that meets their needs, especially when playing with new languages.

Minor suggestion: on the newsletter page, hitting enter/return should submit the form. It didn't on my browser for some reason (Chrome 36.0.1985.143 on Linux). I had to click the button.

Thanks for the hint! Noted and on top prio in the backlog

Neat! I maintain something similar here: http://github.com/jordan-wright/boilerplate.

Great collection Jordan! I didn't know this existed. You should def contribute to the project once the skeleton.io code is on github

great idea, best of luck!

Thanks! ;-)

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