Cookieplone 🍪
Welcome to Cookieplone, a powerful wrapper around Cookiecutter designed to streamline the development of Plone codebases.
Whether you're building a backend add-on, a new Volto add-on, a full project with both backend and frontend, Cookieplone simplifies the process using robust Cookiecutter templates.
Key features 🌟
Cookieplone offers the following key features for each audience.
For users
- One stop for all Plone templates: Cookieplone helps you find the correct template to start your new Plone project.
- Simplified usage: Cookieplone provides an enhanced experience over standard Cookiecutter usage by offering predefined sane defaults and a unified approach to generating various Plone projects.
- Batteries included: No need to install lots of dependencies. Run
pipx run cookieplone
, and you will quickly generate your codebase.
For template creators
- Built-in validators: Includes built-in validators to ensure user inputs are correct.
- Jinja2 filters: Includes Jinja2 filters for advanced template control.
- Sub-templates: Mechanism to easily instantiate "sub templates" within cookiecutter hooks -- i.e. post_gen_hook -- , facilitating greater code reuse.
Installation 💾
First, ensure you have Python, pip, and pipx installed on your system.
Then install Cookieplone using pipx
:
# pipx is strongly recommended.
pipx install cookieplone
Or, if pipx is not an option, you can install Cookieplone in your Python user directory.
python -m pip install --user cookieplone
Usage 🛠️
To see all available template options, run:
pipx run cookieplone
Cookieplone will walk you through the necessary steps, using sensible defaults and offering customization options where needed.
Use options to avoid prompts
Cookieplone will ask a lot of questions.
You can use some of its options to avoid repeatedly entering the same values.
--no-input
You can use the --no-input
option to make Cookieplone not prompt for parameters and only use cookiecutter.json
file content.
--replay
and --replay-file
You can use the options --replay
and --replay-file
to not prompt for parameters and only use information entered previously or from a specified file.
See Replay Project Generation in the cookiecutter documentation for more information.
Specify a template
You can also specify other templates.
Template | Description | Command |
---|
backend_addon | Create a Plone add-on to be used with the backend. | pipx run cookieplone backend_addon |
frontend_addon | Create a Plone add-on to be used with the frontend. | pipx run cookieplone frontend_addon |
The updated list of templates can be found at the cookieplone-templates repository.
Configure Cookieplone
Environment Variable | Description | Example |
---|
COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY | Where to look for templates to be used. | COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY=/home/plone/cookiecutter-plone/ pipx run cookieplone |
COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY_TAG | Which tag/branch to use from a remote repository. | COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY_TAG=experimental pipx run cookieplone |
COOKIEPLONE_REPO_PASSWORD | Password to use when using a remote repository that is password protected. | COOKIEPLONE_REPO_PASSWORD=very-secure pipx run cookieplone |
Contribute 🤝
We welcome contributions to Cookieplone.
You can create an issue in the issue tracker, or contact a maintainer.
Development requirements
- Python 3.10 or later
- Hatch
Setup
Install all development dependencies, including Hatch, and create a local virtual environment with the following command.
make install
Check and format the codebase
make check
Run tests
pytest
is this package's test runner.
Run all tests with the following command.
make test
Run all tests, but stop on the first error and open a pdb
session with the following command.
hatch run test -x --pdb
Run only tests that match test_run_sanity_checks_fail
with the following command.
hatch run test -k test_run_sanity_checks_fail
Run only tests that match test_run_sanity_checks_fail
, but stop on the first error and open a pdb
session with the following command.
hatch run test -k test_run_sanity_checks_fail -x --pdb
Support 📢
For support, questions, or more detailed documentation, visit the official Cookieplone repository.
Thank you for choosing Cookieplone for your Plone development needs!
This project is supported by
License
The project is released under the MIT License.