Inception

Inception is a project kickstarter (scaffolding tool), designed to improve developer experience and help with fast onboarding. All the decisions and options provided in these templates, are based on what we use mainly in DataChef. However, given the open source nature of this project, feel free to challenge these decision and help us to improve them.

Table of Contents

• Inception
  • In Action
  • Features
    • Detailed Features
  • How to Use
    • Prerequisites
    • Initialize a New Project
  • Resources
  • Contributing
  • License
  • Acknowledgments

In Action

Features

1. Opinionated Configuration: Reduces decision fatigue by providing fewer, well-chosen options.
2. Reproducible and Declarative: Built on Nix and Devenv, ensuring reliable, reproducible environments.
3. Multi-Language Support: Compatible with Python, Node.js, Go, and Rust.
4. Enhanced Development Environment: Includes features like dotenv, LSP, difftastic, and more.
5. DevContainer and CodeSpaces Support: Developers don't even need a local editor to begin with!
6. Comprehensive .gitignore: Includes a well-crafted .gitignore file.

Detailed Features

Feature	Python	Node.js	Go	Rust
Automatic Changelog	✅	⏳	⏳	⏳
Automatic Release	✅	⏳	⏳	⏳
Automatic Versioning	✅	⏳	⏳	⏳
CI/CD	✅	✅	✅	✅
Check code docs on commit	✅	⏳	⏳	⏳
Documentation Generator	⏳	⏳	⏳	⏳
Editor Config	✅	✅	✅	✅
Generate Containers	✅	✅	✅	✅
Language Server	✅	✅	✅	✅
Pre Commit Hooks	✅	✅	✅	✅
Type Check	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Yaml Lint	✅	✅	✅	✅
devcontainer	✅	✅	✅	✅
difftastic	✅	✅	✅	✅
dotenv	✅	✅	✅	✅

How to Use

Prerequisites

To start working with Inception, you need:

• Devenv, version 1.0.0 or higher.
• pipx or copier

Tip

Enabling direnv allows you to:

1. Use your own shell configuration in devenv session.
2. Automatically integrated with your IDE (VSCode and Intellij support it out of the box, and for Emacs and Vim you can use suggested plugins below).

For more information on how to enable it you can refer to this wiki entry.

Suggested Plguins:

1. emacs-direnv
2. direnv.vim

Note

While installing devenv for the first time, you might face the following known errors depending to your local setup. Following links aim to help you solve them quickly:

• Add user to the trusted user list
• Trusting git directory

Initialize a New Project

First, create a project folder and cd into it.

mkdir awesome-project && cd awesome-project

Using pipx:

pipx run copier copy --trust gh:DataChefHQ/Inception .

If you have copier installed locally, use:

copier copy --trust gh:DataChefHQ/Inception .

Resources

• Devenv Docs
• Nix in 100 Seconds

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please check out our contributing guidelines to get started.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the open-source community for their invaluable contributions to projects which we are building on:
  • Nix
  • Devenv
  • Copier
• Inspiration and support from the DataChef team.