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 microlang (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.

Built with Scroll v155.0.3