A command line tool for generating boilerplate project directories

Proof of concept, and possibly one of many tools that I will use clojure to instrument a lot of things on my Arch Linux installation, which I am documenting here: dotfiles

GraalVM is a new tool that allows Java to generate optimized binaries, Solving their coldstart problem. I get to use Clojure and edn in a context I would normally shell scripts.

This is a bit annoying right now. As of writing, you can't use the latest version of openjdk and have it be compatible with GraalVM CE.

As of writing, you need to have openjdk 11.0.6 and GraalVM CE 20.0.0 (build 11.0.6+9 ...)

make install

This should create the binary, and copy it to ~/.local/bin/punt

Clearly, I was building this with linux in mind, so you will have to mess with it a bit to work properly on your system.

Currently the api is very basic

I have a template description in example-definition directory. directories asre specified under :layout. This is loosely modeled after hiccup, where the the first argument of the vector is the folder name and the rest is either a #punt/file ... or another directory array.

for example, mimic hugo new site website

{:layout
 [:website
  #punt/file files/config.toml
  [:archtypes
   #punt/file files/default.md]
  [:static]
  [:themes]
  [:data]
  [:layouts]]}

Currently, these definitions live in ~/.local/share/punter/{template name}.

You can change where punt looks by either using the flag -s /somewhere/else or export $PUNT_PATH

in the case of the plantuml setup in the example-directory, if placed on the path punt can find it, you can simply call punt puml in the directory you want it to live.

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