Boiler is an application that automatically prints basic boilerplate code that you can copy and paste into your project.

In the future, Boiler may download it's templates from a public website. When we do that we'll use GitHub for contributing to the project. You should also be able to use your own URL as an additonal template repository.

A few examples of commands to show specific templates.

boiler html

boiler go

boiler go/http

boiler license/mit

Create an index.html file using the html template.

boiler html > index.html

Clone this repo, build Boiler for your platform, then copy (or symlink) the binary into your bin directory. You'll need Go installed to compile. After you have the code just run the following two commands to build and copy.

go build boiler.go
sudo cp boiler /usr/local/bin/

Template lists are a template themselves. Running boiler list will show you the list/main.txt template. Running boiler list/tf will show you the list/tf.txt file, and so on. You can organize your templates however you like.

boiler list

You must set a BOILER environment variable to your template directory and your template directory must end in a slash.

export BOILER=/some/template/path/