Create a project

Creating projects from templates is the heart of qube.

Our templates adhere to best practices and try to be as modern as possible. Furthermore, they try to automate tasks such as automatical dependency resolvement and installation, packaging, deployment and more.

To learn more about our templates please visit Available templates and check out your template of interest.

The creation of a new project can be invoked by

$ qube create

which will guide you through the creation process of your (customized) project via prompts. If you do not have a qube config yet, you will be asked to create one first. The full name, email and possibly more information set during the configuration process is required when creating the project. For more details please visit Configure qube. The prompts follow the pattern of domain (e.g. cli, gui, …), subdomain (if applicable, e.g. website), language (e.g. Python) followed by template specific prompts (e.g. testing frameworks, …). | The template will be created at the current working directory, where qube has been called.

It is also possible to directly create a specific template using its handle

$ qube create --handle <HANDLE>

After the template has been created, linting (see Linting your project) is automatically performed to verify that the template creation process was successful.

You may already be made aware of any TODOs, which you should examine before coding your project.

Finally, you will be asked whether or not you want to automatically push your new project to Github. For more details about the Github support please visit Github Support.

Note that in order to use the automatic Github repo creation feature, you need to set a personal access token (for login, since a login via password will be deprecated in Autumn 2020) via qube config pat (if not already done). This token is also used for qube’s sync feature.

Take a look at the Github docs to see, how to create a personal access token for your Github account.