butler

Butler is an automatation tool to scaffold new projects in only a few seconds. We provide a powerful interactive cli. When you create a project template you can create a Survey. Surveys are used to collect informations from the users to generate individual templates. Beside templating we also plan to integrate common tasks of popular project managents tools like Jira, Confluence in Butler.

Bootstraping projects should be fun!

Features

• Template Surveys
• Conditional files and folders
• After hooks for post-processing
• Auto Update
• Distributed configs

Principles

• Project Templates are simple git repositories
• Everything is a template you don't have to deal with /template directories
• Required informations are asked during the bootstrapping process

Usage

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

Documentation

• Config
• Template Surveys
• Template Syntax
• Git Hooks
• Debugging
• Commands

Commands

• Project Templates: This command will create a new project based on the selected template.
• Install Git Hooks: This command will install all selected hooks.
• Auto Update: This command will update Butler to the latest version.
• Report a bug: This command will open a new Github issue.
• Version: This command will return the current version of Butler.

Maintenance

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

Roadmap

• Create templates for Sitecore, Kentico or other components
• Jira Integration
• Confluence Integration

Credits