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Create README files for your project in 30 seconds ⚡

Dhravya on March 06, 2022

I'm the type of person who keeps creating different repositories and small open-source projects. One major problem I was having was, making the REA...
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MiguelMJ

It would be nice if this post had shown some examples of how it works, where does it take the info of the project to write it in the README...
I think it's a very cool project!

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Dhravya

Alright, so here's how it goes:

Basic information that the code can't figure out is asked in the terminal, all variables are stored and then it goes through a function called file_factory. the file factory has a very basic job.

It creates the README file, and puts in the variable (as Yassin pointed out)
But, the special part is, it looks for the files in the current directory. According the files, it creates installation and usage instructions

It also takes the git url by executing a command

It's honestly pretty basic stuff, one of my first rust project lol

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Yassin Eldeeb 🦀 • Edited

Nice! Keep it up.

Another thing to consider is to put #rust as a tag to this blog, that's the most advanced marketing technique, trust me people love Rust 😂😂.

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Yassin Eldeeb 🦀 • Edited

It's actually really really simple, It's just a template Readme with placeholders like $PROJECT_NAME ..etc and he reads that template locally from the filesystem or from a string literal stored directly in the program's binary. The CLI prompts you to a few questions and every time you answer a question he go and replace the placeholder with what you have typed. And Voila! you now have a string containing all of the customized Readme information, just dumb it to the terminal.

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Dhravya

not exactly like that

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gogi2811

“If you have to do it manually more than 3 times then it needs to be automated.”
Very cool what you have implemented

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Dhravya

Thank you so much!

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Wasim Raja

I think the project name is misleading. Its not a readme generator, its a readme template.

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Dhravya

Not really, there's quite a bit of automation involved (Generating the installation and usage on it's own for example)

But eh sure ig

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magicfingers

I love the project and I want to use it to create a Readme Dhravya but I don't know. How can I use it in my github repo?

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Dhravya • Edited

Hi there! to use this in your project:

  1. Install cargo if you don't have it already (cargo is a very useful package manager commonly used for Rust projects)
  2. Just run this command:
cargo install readme-generator
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  1. And finally, just run this command
readme-generator.exe
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That's it.