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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 add-on, a new Volto add-on, a full project with both backend and frontend, or even documentation, Cookieplone simplifies the process using robust Cookiecutter templates.
+
+## Key features 🌟
+
+Cookieplone offers the following key features for each audience.
+
+### For users
+
+- **One stop for all Plone templates**: Cookieplone helps you 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 lots of dependencies. Run `pipx run cookieplone`, and you will 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`:
+
+```shell
+# pipx is strongly recommended.
+pipx install cookieplone
+```
+
+Or, if pipx is not an option, you can install Cookieplone in your Python user directory.
+
+```shell
+python -m pip install --user cookieplone
+```
+
+## Usage 🛠️
+
+To see all available template options, run:
+
+```shell
+pipx run cookieplone
+```
+
+Cookieplone will walk you through the necessary steps, using sensible defaults and offering customization options where needed.
+
+### Specify a template
+
+You can also specify other templates.
+
+| 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 ` |
+
+### Configure 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` |
+
+## Contribute 🤝
+
+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 the following command.
+
+```shell
+make install
+```
+
+### Check and format the codebase
+
+```shell
+make check
+```
+
+### Run tests
+
+[`pytest`](https://docs.pytest.org/) is this package's test runner.
+
+Run all tests with the following command.
+
+```shell
+make test
+```
+
+Run all tests, but stop on the first error and open a `pdb` session with the following command.
+
+```shell
+hatch run test -x --pdb
+```
+
+Run only tests that match `test_run_sanity_checks_fail` with the following command.
+
+```shell
+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 with the following command.
+
+```shell
+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).