repo-boiler-plate

This is a boilerplate you can use to have your repo set with my best practices: a README, git workflows, necessary tools, dependencies, file structure etc.

You can create a repo out of this template.

Otherwise for a repo you've already started; here's a simple command to run at the root of your repository. (Please, ensure you commit your code before doing so. By that I mean; nothing should be in the staging area of git before running this so that you can much more easily decide which changes you are pulling in)

git clone https://github.com/NdagiStanley/repo-boiler-plate/.git && rm -rf repo-boiler-plate.git && cp -r repo-boiler-plate/. . && rm -rf repo-boiler-plate

GIT

Workflows:

• main (Simple solo project)
• main - dev (Low complexity project with collaborators)
• main - staging - develop (Standard project)
• main - staging - develop - feature-review-... (Highly complex project)

Branch naming conventions:

• task/...
• fix/... or fx-..
• feat/... or ft-..

Or use branch names generated by your Project Management tool or issue tracker of choice.

Necessary Tools

A bad workman blames his tools!

Nonetheless, I advocate for "build your tooling so that it in hand builds you".

Below is my tooling. You can use it as is or modify it to suit your needs.

Contained herein are Markdown badges. These badges (seen when you collapse the sections below) are corresponding with the tooling needed. Upon cloning the repo you simply edit the service's username and repo-name or project-name and where applicable, the branch-name.

General

Continuous Integration with AppVeyor, CircleCI, GitHub actions, Netlify, SemaphoreCI etc.

• Repo: electron-bot/electron

  

• Repo: workforce-data-initiative/tpot-abacus

  

• Repo: github/hub

  

• Repo: NdagiStanley/lumen | Deployment - My old (now defunct) web profile

  

• Repo: NdagiStanley/vue-django

  

Code quality analysis with Code Climate

• Repo: NdagiStanley/django_girls_complete

  

Licensing

• Repo: NdagiStanley/repo-boiler-plate (this repo)

  

Containerization with Docker

• Repo: NdagiStanley/vue-django | In DockerHub: stanmd/vue-django

  

• Repo: docker-library/postgres | In DockerHub: postgres

  

Documentation on Read the Docs

• Repo: psf/black

  

Matters open-source on GitHub

• torvalds/linux

  

• NdagiStanley/vue-django

  

  

Packaging

In general, SemVer - Semantic Versioning should be adhered to

• Repo: NdagiStanley/lifebuoy

  

Python packages on PyPI

• Repo: encode/django-rest-framework

  

• Repo: amos-o/pipexec

  

• Repo: psf/black

  

• Repo: workforce-data-initiative/tpot-abacus

  

Packaging in NPM

• Repo: vuejs/vue

  

• Repo: http-party/http-server | In NPM: http-server

  

Packaging in VS Marketplace

• Repo: NdagiStanley/lifebuoy

  

Dependencies

Dependencies across different language stacks

I use Dependabot, David DM, Libraries and Requires

• Dependabot

  • Repo: NdagiStanley/codango

    

• NPM dependencies with David DM

  • Repo: vuejs/vue

    

• OpenSource libraries with Libraries

  • Repo: NdagiStanley/vue-django

    

• requires.io is no longer active. It was acquired by Mend.io (formerly WhiteSource) and is now part of their product offering.

  • Repo: NdagiStanley/django_girls_complete

    

Vulnerabilities on Snyk

• Repo: NdagiStanley/vue-django

  

Files

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NdagiStanley/repo-boiler-plate/main/.editorconfig > .editorconfig

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NdagiStanley/repo-boiler-plate/main/netlify.toml > netlify.toml

• .circleci/config.yml file for CircleCI located at root of your repository

• .dependabot/config.yml file for Dependabot located at root of your repository (on the default branch)

• .editorconfig file, located at the root of the repo. Used to help contributors define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs

• .gitignore file. Works with my .gitignore_global file.

  Speaking of .gitignore, find the default .gitignore files here. For example, the extensive .gitignore for Python projects is at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitignore, hence: (Others: Node, Go, Rust, Ruby in place of Python in the script)

  curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/main/Python.gitignore > .gitignore

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References:

• All matters Git: Atlassian, Git SCM
• Licenses: Choose a license
• For badges/ shields: shields.io, badgen.net
• GitHub