Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Cookiecutter templates
Lecture: Summary
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Cookie cutter is one of the best answers to one of those How to build X in Python questions. You want to build a Django website.
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Great use Cookie cutter Django, Flask or FastAPI. Their templates for those frameworks to, want to publish a package on PyPI.
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But you have never done this, so you are not sure how to start. Well, there is a cookie cutter -py package that you can use, using Cookie
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cutter can give you a head start when building a new Python project. Instead of setting up everything by hand,
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you can use one of the existing templates. Some of the main benefits of using a cookie cutter are that, it removes a lot
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of boring work that you need to do when you set up the project. When you start building a Django website,
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you probably need to add some plugins for authentication, maybe install pytest with some plugins.
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Set up continuous integration to make sure that your tests are running automatically on GitHub
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That's all boring work that you have to do for every project, and I'm pretty sure just like me,
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you would prefer to actually build that website, instead of dealing with all this stuff,
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especially since it's easy to meet something and then you waste even more time debugging some
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miss configured settings. Cookie cutter deals with this problem for us.
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You answer some questions, and it immediately generates a project with all those things already
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set up for you. And it's not only useful at the beginning of the project
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but also at the end when it's time to deploy your application or publisher package to PyPI, with cookie cutter. We usually have everything already set
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for that, it's very easy to create or modify and new cookie cutter template. The simplest template is just a folder with some files.
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But if you need something more advanced, cookie cutter got you covered with its simple templating
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language. Cookie cutter helps you set some good and safe default settings for your
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project. The most popular templates have been used and reviewed by thousands of developers.
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If there was something wrong, or if someone noticed a security vulnerability, they probably already reported and fix that,
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so you can be sure that you are starting your project following the best practices and
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I like to think about cookie cutter templates as getting a feedback from hundreds of developers who contributed to that template.
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A free feedback from people who have been writing Python packages or Django applications for years.
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And the best part is that you don't have to argue with them on what's the best way of doing something. It has already been established,
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and by using a specific template, you just follow those recommendations.