About

create is an engine for building repositories from templates. It provides tooling for:

• Initialization: Creating new repositories from templates with a single CLI command
• Migration: Updating existing repositories to the newest versions of their template

See CLI to generate your first repository from a template with the create command:

npm

npx create typescript-app

yarn

yarn dlx create typescript-app

pnpm

pnpm dlx create typescript-app

create also provides rich scaffolding for building flexible repository templates that describe the files and settings for projects, as well as configurable, type-safe options for customizations.

Why?

Keeping up to date with the latest and greatest in web development tooling is hard:

1. Configuring all sorts of useful tools from scratch takes a lot of time and effort.
2. As tools change, rolling out improvements to all your repositories is even more time and effort.

create helps with both of those problems.

It allows you to pull in great tooling from templates such as create-typescript-app — without needing to configure it all from scratch. Templates can define both the raw files on disk as well as GitHub repository settings.

create additionally includes great support for updating your repositories as templates change. Existing template options are inferred from your existing repository. Rich persistent customizations can be defined in a configuration file.

Put together, create is a comprehensive solution for keeping repositories on the latest and greatest in web development tooling.

Status

create is very early stage. See FAQs for more information.