Skeleton.io – Curated skeleton app and boilerplate code directory (opens in new tab)

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69 pointsingelheim11y ago19 comments

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Great idea but you should have spent a few hours searching for as many frameworks you could find and adding them. This will slowly slip off the first page and everyone will forget about it.

If there were a few projects pre-populated, I'd probably have bookmarked and come back / submitted anything you might have missed.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Thanks for the input! Yeah I thought about adding some skeletons already, but then decided to make it truly crowd sourced. I think this is a great start to get the curating going. I hope you'll still bookmark the page and come back later once the first skeletons hit the page

tjbiddle11y ago

A project is still considered crowdsourced even if you're the only one in the crowd at first :-)

OhSoHumble11y ago

I added myself to the mailing list. I hope you get enough projects to open up the site soon.

flxn11y ago

I am so mind blown right now... On 10/14 (5 days ago) i checked if this domain is available (it was) because I had exactly the same idea. I even made a note that is sticking on my desk right now. Good luck with your project...

ingelheimOP11y ago

I know that feeling really well. I have same ideas to a lot of people in a close timeframe often. As I want to open source the project, you are definitely more than welcome to help develop the page!

And yeah, the URL is pretty nice - I could not believe it was still available ;-)

jesuslop11y ago

great idea to me, should have existed before, and a suggestion for future maturity. For a given code base, have a cumulative tree with all possible combinations of feature choices, look at "feature model" in wikipedia so you can map a FODA diagram to a VCS controlled tree, that is, think of a code base as a product line instead of a fixed product.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Great input! Thanks for the recommendation - will def look into it

cryptolect11y ago

I've been looking into ocaml, and was wondering what to do once my programs grow beyond a single file. Unfortunately it doesn't have the equivalent of 'lein new' (Clojure tool for creating a new, empty project skeleton), so I'd welcome a repository of best practice examples like skeleton.io.

emillon11y ago

I have a cookiecutter template for js_of_ocaml projects if you want:

https://github.com/emillon/cookiecutter-jsoo

(cookiecutter is a general scaffolding tool)

ingelheimOP11y ago

Always great to hear that people are looking for aggregation sites like skeleton.io - We are currently thinking about also hosting not just skeletons but aggregations to tutorials, and any other helpful coding resource as well

qntmfred11y ago

your thoughts on how this relates to or serves a different usecase than yeoman?

ingelheimOP11y ago

yeoman is a great tool I actually use myself quite often. I just wanted to create a place where people might go to see if there are great skeleton apps available that meets their needs, especially when playing with new languages.

sqs11y ago

Minor suggestion: on the newsletter page, hitting enter/return should submit the form. It didn't on my browser for some reason (Chrome 36.0.1985.143 on Linux). I had to click the button.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Thanks for the hint! Noted and on top prio in the backlog

jwcrux11y ago

Neat! I maintain something similar here: http://github.com/jordan-wright/boilerplate.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Great collection Jordan! I didn't know this existed. You should def contribute to the project once the skeleton.io code is on github

switch_nand11y ago

great idea, best of luck!

ingelheimOP11y ago

Thanks! ;-)

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19 comments

zzzzz_11y ago

Great idea but you should have spent a few hours searching for as many frameworks you could find and adding them. This will slowly slip off the first page and everyone will forget about it.

If there were a few projects pre-populated, I'd probably have bookmarked and come back / submitted anything you might have missed.

ingelheimOP11y ago

tjbiddle11y ago

A project is still considered crowdsourced even if you're the only one in the crowd at first :-)

OhSoHumble11y ago

I added myself to the mailing list. I hope you get enough projects to open up the site soon.

flxn11y ago

ingelheimOP11y ago

I know that feeling really well. I have same ideas to a lot of people in a close timeframe often. As I want to open source the project, you are definitely more than welcome to help develop the page!

And yeah, the URL is pretty nice - I could not believe it was still available ;-)

jesuslop11y ago

ingelheimOP11y ago

Great input! Thanks for the recommendation - will def look into it

cryptolect11y ago

emillon11y ago

I have a cookiecutter template for js_of_ocaml projects if you want:

https://github.com/emillon/cookiecutter-jsoo

(cookiecutter is a general scaffolding tool)

ingelheimOP11y ago

qntmfred11y ago

your thoughts on how this relates to or serves a different usecase than yeoman?

ingelheimOP11y ago

sqs11y ago

Minor suggestion: on the newsletter page, hitting enter/return should submit the form. It didn't on my browser for some reason (Chrome 36.0.1985.143 on Linux). I had to click the button.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Thanks for the hint! Noted and on top prio in the backlog

jwcrux11y ago

Neat! I maintain something similar here: http://github.com/jordan-wright/boilerplate.

ingelheimOP11y ago

Great collection Jordan! I didn't know this existed. You should def contribute to the project once the skeleton.io code is on github

switch_nand11y ago

great idea, best of luck!

ingelheimOP11y ago

Thanks! ;-)

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