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I'm surprised there aren't more tools out there for starting a new project with some default config files. There's `cargo new` but it's Rust specific and very minimal. create-react-app is React specific. The only option I know of is cookiecutter. Surely it's a common problem?

Are there any good tools for generating boilerplate code? If I'm a web framework author, I'd love to provide a *discoverable* tool for defining a new controller. This is especially important if files need specific naming conventions or to be in certain directories. I've seen tools like yeoman and create-react-app, but they seem to focus on new projects. There's also no VS Code integration that I'm aware of.

A great deep dive on building GitHub's code view, optimising React, scaling to thousands whilst supporting both Ctrl-F and syntax highlighting: