June 23, 2024 — Regardless if you specialize in React, Rails, Django, Next, Java, C#, or ObjectiveC, you probably use templates to start new projects.

Templates generate a handful of files like readme.md, .gitignore, and main.

They also initialize a handful of directories like src/ and tests/.

What if it was even easier to make, edit and use these templates?

Introducing Stamp, a mini-language (only 60 lines of code, including comments) that makes it as concise as possible to write, edit, share and expand project templates.

1. Install Scroll

npm install -g scroll-cli

1. Create myFirstStamp.scroll

stamp .gitignore *.html readme.scroll # My First Stamp <script src="scripts/hello.js"></script> scripts/ hello.js console.log("Hello world")

1. Run scroll build

Done!

Stamp was jointly created by me and Guillaume Papin. Other tools (listed below) do similar things, but with some slight differences.