Quick Start

Backpack can help you turn your own repos, or other people's repos, to a fully functioning starter project with all the boring stuff automated.

• Generate from full project, subfolders, branches, tags 🌠 - use complete, versions, or any parts of repos you like
• Shortcuts 🚀 - create a personal or team list of your projects with global and local shortcuts
• Variable replacements - replace variables in content and path (like cookiecutter)
• Automated setup steps :robot: - run yarn install or make automatically after a clone
• Interactive inputs - define steps to take inputs and select options in YAML while generating a new project
• Fast & efficient 🏃‍♂️ - no history or .git folder, local caching of content by default, supporting git and tar.gz download

Download

For macOS:

brew tap rusty-ferris-club/tap && brew install backpack

Otherwise, grab a release from releases and run bp --help:

Your first "clone"

Let's start with the Vital vite.js template:

$ bp jvidalv/vital
✔ Destination · my-project2
✔ Generate from 'jvidalv/vital' into 'my-project2'? · Yes
🔮 Resolving...
🚚 Fetching content...
🎒 Unpacking files...

 + my-project2/.husky/.gitignore Copied
 + my-project2/.husky/commit-msg Copied
 + my-project2/.husky/pre-commit Copied
 + my-project2/index.html Copied
 + my-project2/tailwind.config.js Copied
 + my-project2/LICENSE Copied
 + my-project2/jest.config.js Copied
 + my-project2/.eslintrc Copied
 + my-project2/lint-staged.config.js Copied
 + my-project2/README.md Copied
   ... and 29 more file(s).

🎉 Done: 39 file(s) copied with 0 action(s).

In my-project2 there's no git folder, and it was actually fetched from a Github tarball, which is faster.

Have an existing project and just want the cool .husky configuration from Vital to start with? do this:

$ cd your-existing-project
$ bp -f jvidalv/vital/-/.husky
✔ Destination ·
✔ Generate from 'jvidalv/vital/-/.husky' into 'a default folder'? · Yes
🔮 Resolving...
🚚 Fetching content...
🎒 Unpacking files...

 + .husky/.gitignore Copied
 + .husky/commit-msg Copied
 + .husky/pre-commit Copied

🎉 Done: 3 file(s) copied with 0 action(s).