A project scaffolding tool
Check out the User Guide for the full documentation.
rendr is a scaffolding tool which allows generating entire projects (or anything else) from blueprints, using standard templating engines and simple customization via parameters. It is generic enough to apply to a wide variety of applications and tech stacks, but powerful and flexible enough to provide value, fast. The tool itself is really a generic template renderer. It's up to you, the template creator, to decide what to put in your template.
Here are just a few possible use cases:
- Enable rapid spin-up of new projects, complete with CI/CD pipelines, code quality gates, security analysis, and more
- Ship "Hello, World!" projects immediately to production, enabling instant iteration on features
- Include CI/CD standards baked into projects from the start, easily kept up to date
- Simplify repeated patterns like creating new microservices, libraries, or submodules on an existing project
Check out the sample blueprints to get a feel for what is possible:
- https://github.com/jamf/rendr-sample-blueprint-hello-world
- https://github.com/jamf/rendr-sample-blueprint-go-microservice
Creating your own blueprint is easy! The details are documented in the User Guide.
To install the latest release:
brew install jamf/tap/rendrAgain, the latest release can be installed with:
cargo install rendrAlternatively, you can download the CLI binary directly from the Releases page and put it on your system path.
More detailed usage can be found in the User Guide.
View available commands:
❯ rendr helpThe basic usage to generate a project looks like this:
rendr create --blueprint https://github.com/your/template --dir my-projectProvide values to the template with the -v flag:
rendr create -b https://github.com/your/template -d my-project -v name:foo -v version:1.0.0Feedback and pull requests are welcome! Let us know if you have issues using the tool, or see use cases that are not yet supported. We'd love to expand its usefulness!