Planter

Planter is a CLI created to help you maintain and use project starters quickly and easily. Stop wasting time setting up projects and start new ones with planters!

Contents

• Getting Started
• Commands
• Local Repos
• Ignore Files
• About

What is a Planter?

A planter is a repo that you have added to your list that you can then use create to quickly start a new project from with no git history. You can also use create with a remote repo directly without referencing an existing planter.

Think of a planter as an easily accessible bookmark to a repo. You can use that bookmark to create a brand new project from that repo with no git history.

Check out this documentation and more at planter.dev.

Getting Started

Install

npm i -g @planter/cli

Adding your own planter

planter add my-planter user/repo
Planter my-planter added.

planter create my-planter my-project
🪴 Planted!
Used my-planter at my-project

Using a remote repo

planter create user/repo my-project

Commands

• create
• add
• list
• edit
• info
• pin

create

planter [source] [dir] [options]

Create a new project using a planter or public repo.

Args

[source]

The name of a planter or a public repo. planter uses degit under the hood, so any valid repo URL for degit works.

If the source is a local planter, the .gitignore or .planterignore will be respected (see add).

[dir]

Directory of the new project.

Options

-f, --flag

Force the created directory to overwrite an existing one.

Examples

# create is the default command in planter
planter

# Interative mode will guide you through create
planter create

# Quickly create by passing a planter name and dir
planter create my-planter my-project

# Passing the source only will prompt you for dir
planter create my-planter

# Create using a repo directly
planter create user/repo
planter create github:user/repo
planter create [email protected]:user/repo
planter create https://github.com/user/repo

add

planter add <name> <location> [options]

Add a planter to your list.

Args

<name>

The name of the planter to use as a reference.

<location>

The repo URL or name.

Options

-L, --local

Treat the location as a “local repo” instead of a remote repo.

By using the local option planter allows the location to be a local folder rather than a remote repo. When running create with a local planter, the .gitignore or .planterignore will be respected.

Read more about Local repos.

Examples

# Add a planter using a remote repo
planter add my-planter user/repo
planter add my-planter github:user/repo
planter add my-planter [email protected]:user/repo
planter add my-planter https://github.com/user/repo

# Add a planter using a local repo
planter add my-planter ./path/to/my-local-dir -L

list

planter list [options]

List available planters.

Options

-a, --alphanumeric

Sorts list of planters alphanumerically (ignores pinned). By default planters are sorted by add date and pinned planters are at the top (see pin).

Examples

# Usage
planter list

# Output
* my-pinned-planter
- my-planter
- my-other-planter

edit

planter edit <name> [options]

Description

Args

<name>

Name of the planter to edit.

Description

Options

-n, --name

Edit the name of a planter.

-l, --location

Edit the location of a planter.

-d, --delete

Remove a planter from your list.

-f, --force

Edit something... dangerously. (Force the edit without any prompts).

-R, --remote

Set the location type to remote.

-L, --local

Set the location type to local. (See add for more information.)

Examples

# Use options to edit your planter
planter edit old-name -n new-name
planter edit old-name -n new-name -l user/new-repo

# Set planter location type to local
planter edit my-planter -L

info

planter info <name>

Prints all info about a planter in your list.

Args

<name>

Name of the planter to show info for.

Examples

# Usage
planter info my-planter

# Output
Name:             my-planter
Location:         user/repo-name
Type:             Remote
Pinned:           1
Date Added:       Aug 24, 2022 7:40:08 PM

pin

planter pin <name> [position]

Pins a planter to the top of your list.

Args

<name>

Name of the planter to pin.

[position]

Specific position to set the planter at. (1 being the top of the list).

Defaults to 1.

Options

-u, --unpin

Removes position from the planter.

Examples

# Pin to top
planter pin my-planter

# Pin to position 5
planter pin my-planter 5

If the position is greater than the number of planters is passed, the highest possible number will be used instead.

# Pin to the bottom-most position (assuming there are only 5 planters)
planter pin my-planter 100

# Output
my-planter pinned to position 5.

Local Repos

Local repos enable folks to quickly use Planter without needing a remote repo or even a git repository at all. This flexibility enables planter to be used for unpublished code such as a frequently used code sandbox or work in progress.

When planted, a local repo will respect ignore files.

Example

my-project/
├─ src/
│   ├─ script.js
│   ├─ style.css
│   └─ index.html
└─ .planterignore

Note It doesn’t have to be a repo — it can just be a folder!

Ignore Files

When using local repos Planter will respect ignore files. Planter supports .gitignore and/or .planterignore. .planterignore works the same way as a .gitignore file does with git. If both files exist, Planter will default to the .planterignore.

This means you could tell Planter to ignore unique files in .planterignore, while git still utilizes the .gitignore file. Alternatively, if you want to ignore the same set of files for both, you can just keep a .gitignore.

About

This was created by Matt & Matthew, the co-founders of Ditto Digital.

We made this to spend less time setting up projects, and have a way to maintain a personal library of project starters, both local and remote.

Check out planter.dev for more info.