Project templates with Cookiecuter

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Shows how to turn a live repo into a reusable template with Cookiecutter, using cookiecutter.json to validate variables and Jinja variables to render filenames and file contents, plus pre/post-generation hooks for dependency checks and cleanup. Recommends keeping template and example repo together, updating templates as projects evolve, swapping unit tests to pytest, adding Docker files and Make targets, extracting shared code to private libs, using direnv and a .env file to centralize environment variables and avoid human errors.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:29Why use project templates
3. 6:24What is Cookiecutter
4. 10:12Creating your own template
5. 14:09Converting project to template
6. 18:36Iterating and improving templates
7. 20:21Recap and next steps
8. 21:06Making choices in templates
9. 24:23Tools and alternatives
10. 25:48Demos and resources
11. 26:51Environment variables with dotenv
12. 27:32Homework and closing

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