Starters

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to mess around with tooling to try ideas out?

A node package that gives you the start of a new project with unit tests in many different languages.

Currently we support:

• clojure
• cplusplus (c++)
• csharp
• go
• java
• kotlin
• javascript (node / js)
• php
• python
• ruby
• rust
• scala
• typescript (ts)

Install

$ npm install --global starters

or without installation

$ npx starters

Example

$ npx starters python
 STARTERS  Copied new python project to /private/tmp/python_project

$ cd python_project

$ tree
.
├── runTests.sh
└── starter.py

0 directories, 2 files

$ ./runTests.sh
.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 0.000s

OK

CLI

$ starters <language>

  Usage
    $ starters

  Examples
    $ starters ts
     Copied new ts project to /tmp/ts_project

How to add a new language

We'd appreciate any new language that you can provide. To do this:

• Create a new folder under available and add your source tree.
• Make sure a runTests.sh exists in your new folder
  • Assume the standard tools are already installed for the language
  • The programme shouldn't watch, it should run and exist cleanly
  • The user shouldn't have to do anything else to make the script pass
• Add the language in source/supported.ts

And to test it...

• Add the language to supported in endToEndTest.sh
• Add any required tooling to the e2e/Dockerfile. The tests run inside this Docker container
• Run the endToEndTest.sh and make sure it finishes