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-  cookieplone
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+Welcome to Cookieplone, a powerful wrapper around Cookiecutter designed to streamline the development of Plone codebases. Whether you're building a backend addon, a new Volto addon, a full project with both backend and frontend, or even documentation, Cookieplone simplifies the process using robust Cookiecutter templates.
+
+## Key Features 🌟
+
+### For Users
+
+- **One Stop for All Plone Templates**: Cookieplone helps you to find the correct template to start your new Plone project.
+
+- **Simplified Usage**: Cookieplone provides an enhanced experience over standard Cookiecutter usage by offering predefined sane defaults and a unified approach to generating various Plone projects.
+
+- **Batteries Included**: No need to install lot's of dependencies, just run `pipx run cookieplone` and you will be able to quickly generate your codebase.
+
+
+### For Template Creators
+
+- **Built-in Validators**: Includes built-in validators to ensure user inputs are correct.
+- **Jinja2 Filters**: Includes Jinja2 filters for advanced template control.
+- **Sub-Templates**: Mechanism to easily instantiate "sub templates" within cookiecutter hooks -- i.e. post_gen_hook -- , facilitating greater code reuse.
+
+
+## Installation 💾
+
+First, ensure you have Python, pip and pipx installed on your system.
+
+Then install cookieplone using `pipx`:
+
+```bash
+# pipx is strongly recommended.
+pipx install cookieplone
+```
+
+Or, if pipx is not an option, you can install cookieplone in your Python user directory.
+
+```bash
+python -m pip install --user cookieplone
+```
+
+## Usage 🛠️
+
+### Running Cookieplone
+
+To see all available template options, just run:
+
+```bash
+pipx run cookieplone
+```
+
+Cookieplone will walk you through the necessary steps, using sensible defaults and offering customization options where needed.
+
+### Specifying a template
+
+You can also specify other templates like:
+
+| Template | Description | Command |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **project** | Create a Plone project with Backend and frontend. | `pipx run cookieplone project ` |
+| **plone_addon** | Create a Plone add-on to be used with the backend. | `pipx run cookieplone plone_addon ` |
+| **volto_addon** | Create a Plone add-on to be used with the frontend. | `pipx run cookieplone volto_addon ` |
+
+### Configuring cookieplone
+
+| Environment Variable | Description | Example |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY** | Where to look for templates to be used. | `COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY=/home/plone/cookiecutter-plone/ pipx run cookieplone` |
+| **COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY_REF** | Which tag/branch to use from a remote repository. | `COOKIEPLONE_REPOSITORY_REF=experimental pipx run cookieplone` |
+| **COOKIEPLONE_REPO_PASSWORD** | Password to use when using a remote repository that is password protected. | `COOKIEPLONE_REPO_PASSWORD=very-secure pipx run cookieplone` |
+
+## Contributing 🤝
+
+We welcome contributions to `cookieplone`.
+
+You can create an issue in the issue tracker, or contact a maintainer.
+
+- [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/plone/cookieplone/issues)
+- [Source Code](https://github.com/plone/cookieplone/)
+
+### Development requirements
+
+- Python 3.10 or later
+- [`hatch`](https://hatch.pypa.io/)
+
+### Setup
+
+Install all development dependencies -- including `hatch` -- and create a local virtual environment with:
+
+```bash
+make install
+```
+
+### Check / Format codebase
+
+```bash
+make check
+```
+
+### Run tests
+
+Testing of this package is done with [`pytest`](https://docs.pytest.org/).
+
+Run all tests with:
+
+```bash
+make test
+```
+
+Run all tests but stop on the first error and open a `pdb` session:
+
+```bash
+hatch run test -x --pdb
+```
+
+Run only tests that match `test_run_sanity_checks_fail`:
+
+```bash
+hatch run test -k test_run_sanity_checks_fail
+```
+
+Run only tests that match `test_run_sanity_checks_fail`, but stop on the first error and open a `pdb` session:
+
+```bash
+hatch run test -k test_run_sanity_checks_fail -x --pdb
+```
+
+## Support 📢
+
+For support, questions, or more detailed documentation, visit the [official Cookieplone repository](https://github.com/plone/cookieplone).
+
+Thank you for choosing Cookieplone for your Plone development needs!
+
+
+## This project is supported by
+
+<p align="left">
+    <a href="https://plone.org/foundation/">
+      <img alt="Plone Logo" width="200px" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plone/.github/main/plone-foundation.png">
+    </a>
+</p>
+
+## License
+The project is released under the [MIT License](./LICENSE)