projectfrom

Projectfrom is an open-source framework for bootstrapping and orchestrating software projects from reusable templates. It provides a declarative approach to defining project structure, dependencies, and reproducible setup steps, enabling teams to standardize new workstreams and environments.

At its core, projectfrom uses templates and manifests that describe the skeleton code, configuration files, and resources required for a project. Templates can be stored in version-controlled repositories and parameterized with environment-specific values, allowing a single template to cover multiple deployment targets.

Key features include a template engine for generating project skeletons, an orchestration layer that sequences tasks such as dependency installation, code generation, and environment provisioning, support for multiple targets (local, CI, cloud), and an extensible plugin system with a command-line interface and a REST API.

The framework’s architecture combines a lightweight core engine, a template parser, an orchestration runner, and a plugin hub. Adapters translate generic tasks into target-specific actions, while the template language supports parameter substitution and simple conditional logic.

Usage typically involves selecting or creating a project template, configuring environment profiles, and invoking the generator to create a new repository structure. The tool can run initialization steps locally or in CI, and it records provenance for reproducibility.

Development and license: Projectfrom is maintained by a community of developers and is released under the MIT license. Source code and documentation are hosted publicly, and contributions are welcomed through a modular plugin system and issue tracker.