Cookiecutter Alternatives
Cookiecutter is described as 'A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. creating a Python package project from a Python package project template' and is an app in the Development category. There are four alternatives to Cookiecutter for Linux, Mac, Windows and SaaS. The best alternative is Yeoman, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cookiecutter are Copier (Free, Open Source), Full Stack Horse (Free, Open Source) and cookiedough (Free).
- Yeoman is a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprising tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications. We take care of providing everything needed to get started without any of the normal headaches associated with a manual setup.No screenshots yet
- Copier is a modern template manager that allows you very simple features such as maintaining templates that are not even git repos, or very advanced features such as updating projects based on their templates, or applying several templates to the same project.
Copier vs Cookiecutter opinions
kir0ul Copier allows also to update your projects when the template has changed. - Website containing generators for various full stack projects.No screenshots yet
- cookiedough is a GUI browser for cookiecutter templates. And can of course extract them. It comes with a database of around 2300 cookietemplates, grouped by category, and allows some rudimentary filtering. Very early alpha, but usable.