butler

Welcome to Butler, your personal assistent to scaffolding your projects. Shipped with binaries for Mac, Win and Linux (64-bit).

Usage

1. Download here
2. Install in PATH
3. Run butler

Commands

• Project Templates
• Auto Update
• Version

Project Templates

This command will create a new project based on the selected template. It will replaces all variables in files and filenames. Project templates are listed in the butler.yml file. Butler is shipped with a default config.

Available variables:

• Project.Name: Project name
• Project.Description: Project description
• Date: Current Date (RFC3339)
• Year: Current year

You can specify custom variables in the butler.yml file. They can be accessed by butler{ .Vars.company }.

Auto Update

Butler is able to update itself. The latest Github release is used.

Version

Print the version of Butler.

Configuration

Stay up-to-date with new templates without to update your config manually just set the environment variable BUTLER_CONFIG_URL to butler.yml on master and both configs are merged.

What Butler template looks like ?

example-project-template

Credits