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Stamp: a mini-language for project templates

by Breck Yunits

June 23, 2024 -- Regardless if you specialize in React, Rails, Django,
Next, Java, C#, or ObjectiveC, you probably use templates to start
new projects.

Templates generate a handful of files like readme.md, .gitignore, and
main.

They also initialize a handful of directories like src/ and tests/.

What if it was even easier to make, edit and use these templates?

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Introducing Stamp, a mini-language (only 60 lines of code, including
comments) that makes it as concise as possible to write, edit, share
and expand project templates.

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How to use

 1. Install Scroll

npm install -g scroll-cli

 2. Create myFirstStamp.scroll

stamp .gitignore *.html readme.scroll # My First Stamp <script src=
"scripts/hello.js"></script> scripts/ hello.js console.log("Hello
world")

 3. Run scroll build

Done!

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Stamp was jointly created by me and Guillaume Papin. Other tools
(listed below) do similar things, but with some slight differences.

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[stamp]

Prior Art

  * cookiecutter
  * Dired
  * vimv
  * ptar
  * shar
  * dar
  * metatar
  * txtar
  * Archiving files in plain text
  * Wikipedia list of archive formats

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