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Discussion on: What are some tasks that programmers should do to save time?

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Cecelia Martinez

I wrote a script with node.js that automatically sets up my files for a new project. It not only gave me some practice with the node fs package but also saves me from typing touch and mkdir so many times.

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Cecelia Martinez

It's on GitHub if anyone is interested, github.com/ceceliacreates/producti...

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Matthew Daly

You might find Yeoman worth a look. It's a similar idea, but you can write your own generators for it, and it gives you a nice API for asking questions so you can do things conditionally or pass in data.

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Cecelia Martinez

This is cool! Definitely much more scalable once I get into building bigger applications!