frameworkassist

frameworkassist is an open-source toolkit designed to streamline setup, configuration, and workflow orchestration across software development frameworks. It provides a command-line interface and a plugin system to scaffold projects, manage dependencies, and enforce consistent project structures across multi-framework environments.

The project emerged from a community effort to reduce boilerplate when starting multi-framework initiatives that span web, mobile, and data-focused components. Development prioritizes cross-framework compatibility, extensibility through plugins, and reproducible project layouts and workflows.

Core features include a templating system for cross-framework scaffolding, a plugin architecture for framework adapters, harmonized configuration schemas, and dependency pinning. It also offers automation hooks for build, test, and deployment pipelines. The architecture centers on a lightweight core CLI with separate adapters (plugins) for each framework, plus a registry of templates and workflows.

Typical usage involves installing the tool via common package managers, running an initialization command to generate a new multi-framework project, selecting desired templates, and then using commands to update dependencies, run linters, tests, and deployments. It supports template creation for frameworks and can integrate with existing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.

The project is community-driven with public repositories and issue trackers. It uses an open-source license (MIT) and follows governance practices to manage plugins and roadmap. Limitations include potential overhead for small projects and reliance on plugin quality for framework coverage and compatibility.

See also Yeoman, cookiecutter, plop.js.