USING THIS TEMPLATE

1. Search/replace for these variables:

   • {{repo_owner}} - GitHub repository username
   • {{repo_name}} - GitHub repository name
   • {{project_name}} - Project name
   • {{project_tagline}} - Project tagline
   • {{security_email}} - Email to send vulnerabilities add -noreply before the @
   • {{author_name}} - Your name
   • {{docs_base_url}} - Base URL to the documentation (no trailing slash). It could be:
     • https://<repo_owner>.github.io/<repo_name> (GitHub Pages default)
     • https://<your_domain> (GitHub Pages with CNAME file)
     • https://github.com/<repo_owner>/<repo_name>/blob/main (if you removed/don't want the documentation site)
   • {{docs_extension}} - Should be html if you use the documentation site, otherwise md
   • {{forum_url}} - URL to your forum for users to ask questions. It could be:
     • https://github.com/<repo_owner>/<repo_name>/discussions (if you enabled the discussions feature on your repo)
     • https://github.com/orgs/<repo_owner>/discussions (if you enabled the discussions feature at your org level)
     • https://<your_domain> (if you maintain a separate discussion forum, or a link to your community on Slack, Discord, etc.)

   For any decent-sized project, it is better to own your brand and use your own domain rather than GitHub links.

2. Remove this README.md and move docs/README.md to the root

GitHub Actions

Some GitHub Actions bundled in this template require a personal access token (PAT). This can be sourced either from an app (recommended) or from a user.

From an app

1. Create an app with the minimum permissions or add the following permissions to an existing app:

   • Contents: Read and write
   • Issues: Read and write
   • Pull requests: Read and write

2. Set the GH_APP_ID and GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY repository secrets.

3. Install the app to your repository (click Install App on the left menu of the app page)

From a user

1. Create a personal access token with the repo permissions.

2. Set the GH_PERSONAL_TOKEN repository secret.

3. Look into each file in .github/workflows:

   • Remove every step called Generate app token
   • Replace ${{ steps.generate_token.outputs.token }} with ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_TOKEN }}

Dependency updates

You can pick between Renovate (recommended) or Dependabot for your dependency updates.

Dependabot won't keep your pre-commit hooks up to date as opposed to Renovate.

Renovate

1. Install it
2. Remove the file .github/dependabot.yaml

Dependabot

Just remove the file .github/renovate.json.