Tempify

Tempify generates project templates from Lua manifests, interactive questions, optional hooks, and embedded Prebyte rendering.

Documentation: GitHub Wiki

Topic	Wiki page
First render	Getting Started
CLI & flags	CLI Reference
Write templates	Your First Template
Update projects	Reapply & Diff
Install via ReqPack	Installation
Build & tests	Development & Build

Prebyte is not vendored in this repo. On first configure, Tempify fetches a pinned Prebyte release from GitHub unless you set TEMPIFY_PREBYTE_SOURCE_DIR.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/Coditary/Tempify.git
cd Tempify
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build

./build/tempify list
./build/tempify basic_cpp my-app \
  --set project_name="My App" \
  --set name_slug=my-app \
  --set namespace=app_ns \
  --set include_ci=false \
  --set author=Me

Install locally:

cmake --install build --prefix "$HOME/.local"
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Requirements

• C++23 compiler
• CMake 3.31+
• CLI11
• git (for first configure without a local Prebyte checkout)

Local Prebyte override:

cmake -S . -B build -DTEMPIFY_PREBYTE_SOURCE_DIR=/absolute/path/to/Prebyte

CMake presets (recommended for development):

cmake --preset dev
cmake --build --preset dev
make test

ReqPack install

Release .rqp packages install the CLI, runtime, and bundled tempify plugin for template distribution.

rqp install rqp:tempify-cli --non-interactive
rqp install tempify basic_cpp

Details: Installation · Releases · ReqPack Plugin

Template layout (minimal)

templates/<template-id>/
  template.lua
  questions.lua
  files/

Reference templates: tests/test_templates/ (Example Catalog)

Development

make test

Test layout and fuzzing: Tests & Quality

ReqPack plugin checks:

rqp test-plugin --plugin . --preset core

License

See repository license file.