Copier VSCode Template

Copier template for Python projects.

This copier template is mainly for my own usage, but feel free to use it as you wish.

The template is heavily inspired by Pawamoy's Copier PDM.

Features

Existing features

• Python 3.9 or above
• PDM setup, with pre-defined pyproject.toml
• Pre-configured tools for code formatting, quality analysis and testing:
  • black,
  • ruff,
  • mypy,
  • safety
  • ssort,
  • coverage
• Tests run with pytest and plugins
• Nox as a task runner
• All licenses from choosealicense.com
• Support for GitHub workflows
• VSCode Dev Containers as development environments
• Support for GitLab CI/CD

Planned Features

• Documentation built with MkDocs (Material theme and "autodoc" mkdocstrings plugin)
• Pre-configured tools for code formatting, quality analysis and testing:
  • blacken-docs, support for tests
• Auto-generated CHANGELOG.md from git commits

Quick setup and usage

Requirements

You need git, copier, copier-templates-extensions, and pdm installed to use this template.

Starting a project

copier copy --trust "https://github.com/ilbumi/copier-python-vscode.git" /path/to/your/new/project

Or even shorter:

copier copy --trust "gh:ilbumi/copier-python-vscode" /path/to/your/new/project

Working with the generated project

Use PDM to manage dependencies:

pdm lock -v -G full-dev
pdm install -v -G full-dev

Run tasks with Nox:

pdm run nox -e check_safety
pdm run nox -e lint

Install your project as a Python package:

pip install -U git+https://yourgit.example/project

Refer to Cookbook for tips