from Hacker News

Has anyone seen or thought of building a site to catalog boilerplate code projects? I know about H5BP and TodoMVC, but I'm envisioning something with a broader scope.

Say I want to get started building a processing pipeline using the Python scikit-learn package. I know I can probably poke around in Google or the scikit-learn.org site and find a starting example. I would prefer, however, to do what I would normally do using npm for Node modules, or brew for Mac recipies, or PackageManager for SublimeText packages: quickly search on a web site or command line for a relevant boilerplate. Not only would this cut down my time in finding a starting point, the community aspect of it (votes, # of downloads, most depended on, most modified, ...) would provide hints about the quality, something that's hard to deduce from examples cherry-picked from web search.

Concrete examples:

$ boilerplate search "scikit pipeline"

# results here

$ boilerplate fetch scikit-pipeline-boilerplate

# grabs it, unpacks it

$ boilerplate fetch h5bp

# grabs standard h5bp, unpacks it

# etc.